Please forgive me if I'm repeating information here, but I was looking
through <italic>TriQuarterly's </italic>edition in honor of VN's 70th
birthday (No. 17, Winter, 1970), and then through the supplement,
which contains VN's notes/corrections/responses, and I came across the
following:


In a very pretty little poem, Mr. Neugeboren seems to rhyme, somewhat
surprisingly, "Nabokov" and "love."  I would suggest "talk of" or
"balk of" as more closely conforming to the stressed middle vowel of
that awkward name ("Nabawkof").  I once composed the following rhyme
for my students:


The querulous gawk of

A heron at night

prompts Nabokov

to write. 


Sincerely, 

Molly Peeney

Ph.D. candidate, UW-Madison