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Letter from Mark Strand, Rome, to Charles Simic, 1982? : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
415255
Accession number
MA 5788.18
Creator
Strand, Mark, 1934-2014, sender.
Display Date
Rome, Italy, 1982.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Dear Charlie."
Date of writing based on Strand being the writer-in-residence at the American Academy of Rome in 1982.
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "American Academy in Rome / via Angelo Masina 5. (Porta S. Pancrazio) 00153 Rome."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Confessing that he is in restaurants a lot, drinking wine and eating; saying that he has written 2 new poems and has a 3rd and 4th coming up and that he did the Welliver catalog and has a short essay on architecture; adding that he is flying to Yugoslavia this weekend to see friends; talking about inspirations he is getting for poems from rereading Ovid; stating that Jules is coming until Christmas, but they are not back together, and then he goes to Salt Lake; includng one of his poems in prose.