Typed letter signed, 2 pages. San Francisco, CA. Thanks her for kind remarks about British poets anthology. Explains his circumstances on American Objectivism: originally Zukofsky's idea, it emphasized “presentational immediacy,” Eliot's “objective correlative,” Pound's “ideographic method.” Rexroth disliked the “cuckoo land of malice [with] which Pound has always surrounded himself,” withdrew. George Oppen, Zukofsky parted, both unrealized as poets. Rexroth adds to list of influences [Introduction New British Poets] André Salmon, and that of U.S. Gestaltists. Reasserts that objectivism tried to oppose art of the surrealists with “an idiom of objectivity and rational order.” Rexroth had tried to incorporate technical devices of Mallarmé, Rimbaud with medeival Latin chants, thought Stein, Pound inadequate. His prosody owed much to primitive song, savage languages, and could not satisfy a wide audience. Thinks poetry best which is “communicative and personal.” His influences now “Greek, Latin, Chinese verse..., Burns, Landor, Tudor and Jacobean songs, Christina Rossetti.