A little girl's song of celebration at being part of, and alive in, the universe.

"I am cherry alive," the little girl sang

Delmore Schwartz

Harper&Row

Here follows the highs and lows of a relationship between two extraordinary personalities. Delmore Schwartz was the golden boy of the American literary scene until his untimeley death in 1966, alone and destitute. James Laughlin was the founder of New Directions, publisher and editor of the Modernists. This collection chronicles a correspondence that began with Schwartz's first unsolicited submission to Laughlin in 1937 and continued throughout the friendship that lasted until the poet's death. The relationship that developed between them was both literary, steeped in their own work and the work of their contemporaries, and personal: gifted storytellers, they delighted each other with factual and fictional observations. The two remained friends and colleagues until the mental illness that eventually claimed him, began to destroy Schwartz's ability to trust even those closest to him.

Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

James Laughlin

Biographies & Memoirs

W.W.Norton&Company

Drawn from the poet's collected papers at Yale University, these humorous essays touch on topics including taking baths and the meaning of existentialism, the abominations of the telephone, theories of Hamlet's behavior and Don Giovanni's promiscuity, and divorce.

The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

New Directions

Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz [hardcover] Delmore Schwartz,Robert Phillips [Jan 01, 1979]

Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz

Vanguard Press

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"I am cherry alive," the little girl sang

Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles

Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz