[* * *] On “D. Wants More D.,” I am afraid it would disturb an audience a bit too much. My father’s garage had windows in it full of webs, flies and spiders churning blood-death in my brain, and tho I’m told nature has its meaning, I’m still infested with horror, and all the charts and graphs of the chemists and biologists and anthropologists and naturalists and sound-thinking men are nothing to the buzzing of this death.

“Crews” is Judson Crews, since 1949 a prolific author of books and pamphlets from the little presses.

[To E. V. Griffith]

April 25, 1960

No, I haven’t seen any of the Crews clip-out type production, and know very little of the mechanics of this sort of thing. But does this mean that a poem must have been published elsewhere in some magazine before it can be included in the chapbook? On much of my published work I only have one magazine and I would not care to tear them up for the chapbook. And you also hold much work of mine that has never been published. I don’t quite know; it is all rather puzzling. And I know that if we had to go after the missing magazines to get the clips it would take long long months, and perhaps many of them could never be acquired.

I wish you could write me a bit more on how this works, for as you can see I am mixed up. What would it cost some other way? Or do they have to be published pieces?

The prices seem fair enough and I could go up to the 32 pages if you have enough material to fill them. Perhaps we might add the 2 poems out of San Francisco Review #1, and I have some stuff coming out in the Coastlines and Nomad, due off the press any day now, I’m told. I don’t know if you’ll like it or not. And you’ve probably seen some of my other crap around. I think “Regard Me” in Nomad #1 was pretty good, but it’s hard for me to judge my own work and I’d rather leave that task up to you.

Right now I don’t know how many pages you can fill or just whether or not this clip-out method restricts the filling. So I guess we’ll have some more delay while you are kind enough to write me and fill in my ignorance.

Hoping to hear from you soon,

[To E. V. Griffith]

June 2, 1960