Box 1
Contains 153 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.”
Moore, Marianne to Deutsch, Babette, 1963 October 20
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. Is glad to have Collected Poems [Indiana Univ. Press, 1963].
Moore, Marianne to Deutsch, Babette, 1964 February 18
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. Deutsch has sent a student's comment which pleases Moore “if it is true...for I am chaffed constantly about being self-entwined and making comprehension a test of ingenuity.” Moore is “impounded for observation” for high blood pressure.
Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, undated
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Discusses [Choral:] The pink church. He is not a red, but pink: “the pink of life, of a pink cheek...” The poem is “anti-Catholic, anti all that the Bible damnation theorizes.. Servitus...is my saint...I particularly detest Eliot, the Catholic Church and the Dictatorship not of the Proletariat but of such rats as Stalin and all his kind.” Thinks The pink church fails, “It is, however a protest poem...against palpable abuses against reason.
Deutsch, Babette to Ridgeway, Ann N., 1965 December 27
Typed letter signed, 1 page with envelope.
Deutsch, Babette to Ridgeway, Ann N., 1965 December 28
Typed letter signed, 1 page with enclosure and envelope.
Deutsch Babette. Note appended to Moore, Marianne to Deutsch, Babette., circa 1964 February 18-20
Autographed note. Would send Moore books if they were not forbidden, remarks Moore's “extravagant gratitude for trinkets? or tokens of regard...”
Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1965 May 30
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. She has found Lament for the makers [poem]. “Am grateful - moved to the soul...”