TLS, 1 PAGE; New London, Conn, to poet and editor William Claire, 23 June [19]77
Meredith apologies for not answering a letter sooner: "I seem to answer letters for pleasure only in May and june ---the rest is hassle, joyous by and large, but hassle ..." Item #59371
from Wikipedia: William Morris Meredith, Jr. (1919 – 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. He began writing while a college student at Princeton University where with his first volume of poetry Love Letter from an Impossible Land was selected by Archibald MacLeish for publication as part of Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. In 1988 Meredith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a Los Angeles Times Book Award for Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems and in 1997 he won the National Book Award for Poetry for Effort at Speech. Meredith was also awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Carl Sandburg Award, and the International Vaptsarov Prize in Poetry.
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