Rexroth, Kenneth, to Deutsch, Babette, 1952 September 17
Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. San Francisco. He has been sent Deutsch book to review [Poetry in our time] and “very subtilely I will controvert Comrat Ciardi.” Rexroth's book is being done by a local typographer, H.H. Evans [23 poems...?]. Rexroth is himself anti-Bolshevik, sees his poetry as “another nail in the coffin of`moribund society...' ” But he feels defeated in this, would join the Communist party before joining “the leaders of American Fascism.” (Caroline Gordon, Philip Rahv, Robert Penn Warren) Admires Deutsch because of her husband - “that he is still there I mean.” Has received Peter Viereck poems: “...he is the loudest man in the Stars and Stripes forever band of Political Sousaism..."
Dates
- Creation: 1952 September 17
Collecting Area Details
Part of the Manuscripts Collecting Area
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