236 west 10 st
new york city

1/23

Dear Dr. Williams:

Today I rec'd a flier from 'The City Lights Pocket Bookshop' announcing the forthcoming publication of your 'KORA IN HELL: IMPROVISATIONS', abt which it states . . . a new version . . . edited by Kenneth Rexroth.

I take the liberty of writing you to ask about this edition for
several reasons. I believe Bob Creeley may have mentioned my
name to you, re some verse of mine he has published in BMR;
certainly he has given me enough hell for not writing you
these past two years that I have been in New York. More import-
antly, I have been particularly interested for several years
in finding a copy of Kora, and in finding it at a price I
could swing.

So the flier came as welcome news, except for the 'edited' business,
and what I'm asking is, how much is edited? I take it Rexroth
would be clean abt it, and so forth, but dont know what to put
against this job.

I should like, also, if I might have the opportunity of sending you
some verse, not particularly for criticism or opinion, but for
the showing of it.

And also to thank you for what your verse has meant and does mean
to me, which is a very good deal.