Letter from Kertesz to Rukeyser, June 17 1977

Title

eng Letter from Kertesz to Rukeyser, June 17 1977

Description

eng Original typewritten letter, dated June 17th, 1977. The letter is from Louise Kertesz to Muriel Rukeyser. Louise hopes Rukeyser is feeling well, and tells her that she mailed her a few pages on The Traces of Thomas Hariot, and that she is writing now to ask a few questions about those pages. Indiana University Press, who had Louise’s manuscript since early February, told Louise that the editor in charge went on vacation, and that the manuscript is in the hands of two or more experts. Louise will let Rukeyser know if she hears anything from them. Louise is now working on a conclusion to the manuscript which involves reading a critic on the so-called “new poetry” of "postmodernism,” the particular sensibility which is unlike that of “modernism.” The more Louise reads, the more she sees that Rukeyser was writing this ”new poetry” even in her first volumes. When critics were complaining in the Forties that Rukeyser wasn’t ironic, they were measuring her works by standards that Rukeyser had found unsatisfactory even before Olson, Duncan, and Snynder, who are poets now spoken of as the first “postmoderns.” Louise had said something like that already, but she thinks she would like to close with a more pointed discussion of these matters, using critical terms which are now being applied. The back page of the letter is a course selection sheet.

Identifier

eng 018_LK_01_12_012.jpg

Creator

eng Louise Kertesz

Date Created

eng July 17th, 1977

Medium

eng Paper

Subject

eng Louise Kertesz, Muriel Rukeyser, Female Poets, Correspondence, Photography

Is Part Of

eng 018.LK, Louise Kertesz papers

Contributor

eng Andrew Schick