Letter from Hayden Carruth to Kertesz, Feb. 1 1981

Hayden Carruth

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

Envelope dated February 2nd, 1981, while the letter is dated February 1st, 1980, and then corrected to 1981. The typewritten letter is to Louise Kertesz from Hayden Carruth from the English Department of Syracuse University. Carruth acknowledges that he received both galleys and the finished book, and that everybody in the literary world, including Denise [Levertov] is pushing him to do the "same sort of thing," but he can’t. He also states that he wrote a collective elegy for the poets who died last winter and spring, including Muriel, and that it will be published somewhere soon. Noteworthy lines: “Why don’t the young assume some of the burden? If I sound old and peevish, I am. But of course I mean nothing personal.”

EMU Archives Collection Identifier

018.LK, Louise Kertesz papers

Comments

February 1st, 1980

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