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Feb 11, 2012, 10:42
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Letter to Elspeth Cameron
Dear Elspeth Cameron
There is no measure to the shame and self-disgust I feel in having talked to you about poetry or about anything else. I regret bitterly that I allowed you to persuade me to let you write my biography.
Jan 23, 2012, 10:25
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Letter to Sandra Beaudin
Dear Sandra
I picked up your letter this afternoon and laughed and laughed. What's the good of Zen & meditation & the spiritual life if they can't save you from boredom? You sound desperate. Why do you let yourself be led around by the nose by Jewish hick-ups from Harvard?
Jan 23, 2012, 10:09
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Letter to Musia Schwartz
My Dearest Musia
Yesterday I took out of the library Ilya Ehrenburg's memoirs of the first years of the revolution and I'm enjoying it hugely. It mainly deals with the writers whom he knew at the time, Blok and Babel and Pasternak and many, many others.
Jan 23, 2012, 09:56
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Letter to F.R. Scott
Dear Frank
I didn't mean to suggest that Jews were a superior intellectual Herrenvolk—just or simply or merely that they've a sensibility and outlook different from that of Christians, or for that matter Moslems & Buddhists.
Jan 23, 2012, 09:45
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Letter to Leonard Cohen
O little boy blue where are you? Or should I call you the scarlet pimpernel? He's here, he's there—he's gone! Frank Scott has had a heart attack: no tie-up with your wanderings, but I thought you'd like to have that tit-bit to chew on while you go your roaming Romeo to Ydra, London, and Oslo.
Jan 23, 2012, 08:27
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Letter to Leonard Cohen
Come back. Montreal is only a mud-bubble in the St. Lawrence without you. Our fireplace is desolate, the weather worse than usual. Aviva is so lonesome for the liquid sound of your voice, she might fly over to Ydra to hear it.
Jan 23, 2012, 08:20
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Letter to Desmond Pacey
Dear Desmond
Yesterday afternoon Leonard Cohen and I dropped in on A. M. Klein. We found him in good spirits, though Leonard's comment afterwards was that the fires had been banked.
Jan 23, 2012, 08:16
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Letter to Robert Creeley
Dear Bob:I found your remarks about [Robert] Graves interesting. Reluctantly, I'm forced to agree with you about the quality of his poetry. Little spontaneity in it, smells too much of the midnight oil, has too conscious an air about it.
Jan 23, 2012, 07:46
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Letter to Earle Birney
Dear Mr. Birney: Honesty, if not critical acumen or sensibility, is asked from a reviewer. I'll not waste good typewriter ink in telling a lanky hayseed from the provinces what I think of him: you can, if you try, muster sufficient intelligence to guess.
Jan 22, 2012, 23:34
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