LETTERS : 1990 : 55

LETTERS: 1990: 55

55.

                                                                                                  August  9,  1990

Dear friend Singh,

Your letter with its enclosed article and interview gave me great pleasure.  I cannot tell you how pleased I am to have you trace back to me the beginnings of your discovery of your own voice in poetry. It is the moment when we find our own way of speaking when we are truly born as a poet. You were well on your way before you read my poems, but I can now believe I helped point you in your definitive direction.  For an old man to hear this from a young man is the highest tribute.

I have spent more than a year writing a poem that is too personal to be published.  Maybe it will be discovered from my papers and printed after my death.  Except for that I have in the offing only a small book of poems you have already seen. I have asked the publisher—COFFEE HOUSE PRESS—to send you a copy.

                    Young people inside old

                    people crying to be

                    uncaged

                                                                                                With my friendship,

                                                                                                Lyle Glazier