28 Nov 50

Apt 2

117 West 75th St

NYC

Dear Mr. Williams,

On the line, for your shrug, or maybe wouldn't it be amazing here's somebody who might remotely intervene for me. Is it possible? Fantastically possible? That is, if he likes the stuff.

Or are there ten thousand contemporary poets bellyaching ditto? To you?

I can't get a nod from any publishing house on doing a 2nd volume of my poems (first volume, "Concerning Man", Banyan, N.Y., 1947). Some of the poems in the 2nd volume have appeared in Poetry New York, Experiment, The Bridge, Berkeley, and Inferno. The first act of a play of mine will appear in the next issue of the Quarterly Review of Literature, the other acts to follow in subsequent issues.

I know the deal on publishing volumes of poetry these years. I know it's a loss, a loss, a loss. I know the number of published volumes of poetry have declined, declined, declined.

So I send you some of the stuff. On the outside chance,