Rob Dyer Biography
Born in New Zealand of several early established (1839 and on) families of colonists, much influenced by father's experiences in WWII as a commander of the Maori Battalion, lives in exile from his two native cultures, neither perfectly mastered, first in Australia, then in the US, now in Paris. Has published in little magazines in New Zealand and New England. Educated in NZ and at Oxford and Hamburg, Professor of Classics at Indiana University, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, publishing about 30 scholarly articles, chiefly on Homer, Cicero and Vergil, also taught Latin and Greek at Eton College and The Hotchkiss School.
The Atlantic gale that now abrades the Côte Sauvage
stirs the savage skin as it has done since men dared raise
these broken menhirs to the god that pounds the broken cliffs
with wind and wave and the loud cry of the gulls.
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The First Duino Elegy of Rilke
Rewritten for Roxana Dyer
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To Canberra
On the prismed green of your grey hills,
where once when I was young only the kangaroo
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Reply to C.K. Stead, Letter to R.R. Dyer
How can we desert the day
who storm through the mists of morning?
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In dangerous silence
to the memory of
Rex Fairburn
without whom something quite different
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