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Dear Miss Lily:

     The silence from this corner of the world has been deafening--I know you 
must have wondered what I've been up to. Well, this unusual degree that I will 
soon be receiving, half-professional/half-academic, gives its recipients 
something to look forward to in their last year: Oral Examinations. Last week I 
completed the first one on Greek and Roman Authors. There are two more to come.

     I am so sorry that you were unable to reach us by telephone. We have 
become imitators of your own hectic pace. But I also regret that the vagueness 
of my last letter made it seem necessary to call. New Directions Publishers 
requires that authors (and agents) submit a "sample chapter", or in our case a 
selection of poems, for their consideration before sending the full manuscript. 
Since I had not heard from you about the contest at Princeton, I was uncertain 
about whether you still intended to submit THE PANELS OF ANTIPHON. So I sent 
New Directions a selection of what I considered the best in the book, and just 
before sending you the last message, received a graciously worded invitation to 
send them the entire ms. This I intended to do immediately, but most of the 
poems needed to be retyped. It was while we were doing this little bit of 
typing that your last letter arrived. So while PANELS OF ANTIPHON has indeed 
had the honor of being presented to two publishers at once, I do not think we 
have violated any ethical codes yet.

     THE MAD QUEEN is at Atheneum again. Let's keep our fingers crossed. And if 
you know any charms or spells (beyond the charms that have already been worked 
into the book), use them.

     I have written to Gorden Press again, asking that they simply return the 
manuscript to me, and thanking them for their kind offer. But depending on how 
quickly they respond to old business, the manuscript may be returned to you, 
since I had earlier given them your address and instructed them to deal 
directly with you.

I am enclosing a book by one of my professors, Dr. Harold Bloom. He is a 
fascinating man. To his poetics I can give only qualified assent, but his 
hermeneutics, his attempt to make a creative application of Freud and Nietzsche-
-all this is most interesting. More to come.
                                                          Yours,
                                                               Larry

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