Letter to Louise Kertesz from Hayden Carruth

Title: Letter to Louise Kertesz from Hayden Carruth
Creator: Hayden Carruth
Description: Envelope dated February 2nd, 1989, while the letter is dated February 1st, 1980. Letter is to Louise Kertesz from Hayden Carruth from the English Department of Syracuse University. Carruth acknowledges that he received both galleys and a 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.”
Date Span: February 1st-2nd, 1989
Date Created: February 2nd, 1989
Original Object Type: Paper
Subject: Envelope; letter; Louise Kertesz; Hayden Carruth; English department; Syracuse University; Denise Levertov; The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser; Muriel Rukeyser; Muriel Rukeyser’s death; collective elegy;
Collection Location: Box 1 Folder 1
Cataloger: Latitude Brown