Description 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,...

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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.”

Description 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...

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Autographed postcard signed. Rutherford, NJ. “...Williams faults not reckless.”

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Autographed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Getting along. Speech is a little thick but that beside it moves.” He is speaking on May 25.

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Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. San Francisco. He has reviewed her book for the Herald Tribune [Animal, vegetable, mineral, Dutton, 1954]. Commends its “depth of beauty and wisdom...” Louise Bogan has “...the unmistakable accent... gripping is the word.” Thinks little of Leonie Adams work: “managing only to be cranky when experimental.” He is not applying for a grant renewal: “I don't like asking people for such letters at all.”

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Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. Saginaw, MI. Commends [Poetry in our time]. “It's so far superior to the other books of its kind that there is no comparison.” Roethke is incensed at Ciardi's remarks in the Times, but “I still think you give a bit too much to certain `Key' figures, particularly Ez[ra Pound] and Tiresome Tom [T.S. Eliot]. Roethke's [Praise to the end!?] sold only 550 copies, in spite of press. He will consider adopting Deutsch book for classes.

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Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Brookline, MA. She was probably referring to Mr. Steiglitz in “that piece about the wedge,” which Deutsch complimented.

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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Praises [Poetry in our time, Holt, 1952]. “I like its positiveness... It does not waver... I like that but gently, smoothly.”

Description Autographed letter signed, 3 pages. Sequoia National Park. Unlike “posturing” of New Criticism, many “partisan and tedious” explanations of modern poetry, [Poetry in our time] is “a fine book, very judicious.” Quarrels with omission of Kenneth Patchen, proletarian poets (mentions Magill, Potamkin, Gold, others). Feels movement failed. “Why has the promise of a whole generation just been blotted out by the respectable and academics?” Opposite occurred in France: Prevert, Eluard sell well,...