Follow up Letter to Douglas Watson May 1983

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340 E. 90th St., 3B New York, N.Y. 10028 29 May 1983 Dear Doug, Your letter of 25 March deserved a far more immediate Answer, but May had a way, this year, of seeming like April, so I’ll take advantage of the seeming by pretending that I am not late in this reply. I hope that you were able to deliver your paper on my movement to “Earth-Citizen” at the Popular Culture Associa- tion conference last month. If so, perhaps you would send me a copy of it some day. And I hope, also, that your com- munication with the editors of the DLB volume have netted you more information--and more satisfaction as a hard and prompt worker-- than you had when you wrote in March. Keep me posted at your convenience. As for A Poet’s Mind, I just now put a note on my calendar to send you a copy. There is no reason why you should wait to get it through any other means. Thanks for your sympathies concerning my son. You might be interested to know of two literary consequences: two poets, the jazz poet Barry Wallenstein and the critic- poet Houston A. Baker--have sent me poems that they composed regarding the tragedy. Baker’s I appreciated for its probing nature, the other for its spontaneity. In the book to be edited by Margaret Burroughs, I am to have seven poems, I have learned. No, eight. Two of them are new: “Scarecrow: The Road to Toulouse” and “The Broken Bowl.” The latter is the title poem of my next book of poetry, which, by the way, will be available next month. It will have 34 uncollected poems and 29 new ones. I have read both “Scarecrow” and “The Broken Bowl” only once to audiences, and the reception was good. (I read at Pace University last month to students, and as a result I am to read there in the fall to faculty and others.) I am, of course, interested in the project that you have in mind concerning my work, and am quite willing to talk with you about it. Opportunity is another matter. I am to leave for France at the end of June and will return (for one or two, probably one, final semester(s) of duty) at the end of August. Also, I’ll be out of the city from 17 to 25 June. But let’s try to work out a time for talk, if possible; before the year is out, we’ll find some way. Best regards,

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Typed letter to Douglas Watson from James Emanuel, dated May 29, 1983. Emanuel accepts Watson's sympathies and corresponds about future literary projects.

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  • container title
    James A. Emanuel Papers
  • creator
    James A. Emanuel
  • issue
    Box 4 Folder 7, Watson, Douglas, 1981-1993
  • rights
    James A. Emanuel Estate
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    James A. Emanuel Estate
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    29-May-83