Letter from Louise Kertesz to Muriel Rukeyser
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Title
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Letter from Louise Kertesz to Muriel Rukeyser
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Creator
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Louise Kertesz
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Description
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Original letter, dated February 17th, 1978 , paper clipped to a preface to a book (Possibly Rukeyser’s Collected Poems?) written by Muriel Rukeyser. The letter before the included preface is from Louise Kertesz to Muriel Rukeyser. Louise begins the letter by thanking Muriel for the Preface to the book. Louise then states that the Preface was “...beautiful and so recognizably yours”. And that it speaks directly to Rukeyser’s “one reader”, to Louise and to each person who will hold Rukeyser’s book.. Louise then states that the fact that Muriel did not cut the poems, and that “...retaining for us the large castings forth in their original bold, hopeful gestures—that is also recognizably you”. Louise thanks Rukeyser for her truthfulness to “how this formed” for you which will encourage many to cast forth, which has encouraged me and put heart into her imagining. As Louise read the Preface over and over, she felt like “my lifetimes” was not a typo, and that Muriel Rukeyser creates the creative. Louise ends the letter by saying that knowing Rukeyser’s poems is one of the greatest gifts of her life. There is a postscript to the letter that asks whether or not Rukeyser is still coming to Mount Holyoke College in the Spring.
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Date Created
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February 17th, 1978
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Original Object Type
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Paper
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Subject
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letter; The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser; Muriel Rukeyser; Louise Kertesz; preface; Mount Holyoke College
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Collection Location
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Box 1 Folder 11
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Cataloger
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Latitude Brown
