[Rarebooks] FS: Barry Lopez Letter to W. S. Merwin

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LOPEZ,  Barry  Holstun. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to  poet  W.  S.
Merwin.  Finn  Rock,  OR: 6 July 1979.  Fine  one-page,  single-spaced
TYPED  LETTER  of  @250 words SIGNED as "Barry."  Lopez  congratulates
Merwin  on winning the Bollingen Prize and then launches into a  newsy
account  of  his  book tour for OF WOLVES AND MEN: "I could  not  have
been  treated  better by Scribner's as far as a focus on the book  and
not  on  me was concerned." He then discusses his work at  hand:  "I'm
pleased  with  RIVER NOTES, the second book in the trilogy that  began
with  DESERT  NOTES.  I wanted the link between the two  books  to  be
clear,  but  for them to be as different as the landscapes from  which
they  derive  in their structure and incident, and am  satisfied  that
they  are."  Normal mailing folds. Fine with hand-addressed  envelope.
                                                                $750.00

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