Autograph Letter Signed to Poet Al Purdy

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One page on stationary of the Seventy's Press dated 11 Feb. 1971. Old folds from mailing, else fine. Handwritten letter from Bly to Canadian poet Al Purdy, complimenting Purdy on a review of one of Bly's books, especially a phrase of Purdy's, "an ass-backwards hunchback." Bly says, "I've seen this hunchback walking back up the hill in so many translations, of Rilke, of the Chinese. It really makes a man wild." Bly goes on to talk of a mutual acquaintance who has cancer (Nowlen?): "I didn't mean that Nowlen was himself afraid of tenderness, but that he was sensitive to that fear in others. That's a gift in a writer, surely, and different from being afraid.".

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Title
Autograph Letter Signed to Poet Al Purdy
Author
BLY, Robert
Condition
Fine
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Binding
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