CK: google gives
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/02/magazine/vikram-seth-s-big-book.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=5
“One of the Americans he studied with, the poet Timothy Steele, has become one of [Vikram] Seth's closest friends and a kind of mentor. "The Golden Gate" bears a dedication to him ("If anything in this engages/By verse, veracity, or vim/You know whom I must credit, Tim") and Steele read "A Suitable Boy" from the earliest drafts. They found that they shared a respect for traditional forms.”
Where’s my PRIZE?
Can’t say that I’m enamoured of VS’s poesy. A tad too Shadean ;=)
CTaH
On 28/03/2009 20:08, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
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Subject: Can anyone identify this?
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:52:18 -0700
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net> <mailto:chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Can anyone identify this?
So here they are, the chapters ready,
And, half against my will, I'm free
Of this warm enterprise, this heady
Labor that has exhausted me.
Through thirteen months, swift and delightful
Incited by my friends' insightful
Paring and prodding and appeal.
I pray the gentle hands of Steele
Will once again sift through its pages.
If anything in this should grate,
Ascribe it to its natal state;
If anything in this engages
By verse, veracity, or vim
You know whom I must credit, Tim.
Carolyn
p.s. un-related observation: Carmen, Merimee?