Box 1
Contains 3 Results:
MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, undated
Autographed greeting card signed. [On card with printed Margaret Clark painting of Harlequin and Columbine]. “I don't think Harlequin's hands and foots are mine only the head but that was forty years ago."
Rexroth, Kenneth, to Deutsch, Babette, undated
Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. San Francisco. Distinguishes between a Milosz [whom Deutsch may have mentioned] and poet O.V. Lubicz-Milosz. Rexroth is angry at the anti-Stalinists, who are turning him toward “an attitude of passivity if not sympathy” with the Communist Party; remarks a Commentary editorial. Berates Poetry: “Miss Monroes epigones will claim to have `first published' even me.”
Roethke, Theodore, to Deutsch, Babette, undated
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Seattle. He has spent the summer finishing the third book, editing an issue of Poetry for Karl Shapiro. He is touched at her comment that “the long pieces came through...more completely on subsequent readings.”