Box 1
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Williams, William Carlos to Deutsch, Babette, 1950 December 18
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Thanks her for a review, notes that her discovery of the omission of a section of the Collected Later Poems “floored me.” Perhaps these, others are contained in the Selected poems
Williams, William Carlos to Deutsch, Babette, 1951 January 4
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Description
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Laughlin [James Laughlin, New Directions editor] is printing a “signature,” 14-16 pages, to include poems omitted in Collected Later Poems [New Directions, 1950] these will appear in remaining unbound 2500 copies. He is working on his autobiography, “A strange experience.”
Williams, William Carlos to Deutsch, Babette, 1951 March 2
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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Typed letter signed, 4 pages. Rutherford, NJ. “Never look for exact symbolism in me. Kra is for anything elemental, even diabolical...” Williams, like Allen Tate, liked Tolson's Ode for Liberia in Poetry [1950]. Discusses use of the sea in a poem: “we come out into the sea but [we must] turn around and strike into the land again.” Prefers first part of book IV [Paterson], likes “the old bitch facing the little Paterson nurse...” “Nobody else loves her but me: and Theocritus.” Dissatisfied...
Williams, William Carlos to Deutsch, Babette, 1951 March 9
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Description
Autographed postcard signed. Rutherford, NJ. “...Williams faults not reckless.”