Photocopy of Annette Kolodny's review of Louise Kertesz's book in the publication Literature

Dated May, 1981, unknown day. A photocopy of Annette Kolodny’s review of Louise Kertesz’s book in the publication Literature. Kolodny states that “The difficulty, I think, stems from the fact that Kertesz could not contain her (often quite justified) anger at the stupidity which marked many reviews of Rukeyser’s work, and the lack of generosity which marked critics’ responses to Rukeyser herself.” Kolodny believes that Louise spent too much time going after old reviews that have long since faded from memory’ and not enough time analyzing Rukeyser’s poetry. Another bigger flaw is that Kertesz wanted to define Rukeyser as “essentially a modern poet of possibility…in the transcendental writers of America's Golden Day, Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau,” but falls short of doing so in any satisfyingly sustained or concentrated way. The chapters, according to the review, “...falter into repetitious contention, awkward in organization.” Yet, the reviewer states that Kertesz points to useful directions for future studies.