Silences.
INSCRIBED
Olsen, Tillie. Silences. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, (1978).
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by Olsen to one of Canada’s most highly regarded Jewish
writers of the second half of the twentieth century: Adele Wiseman, a devotee of Olsen’s:
Beloved Adele - my sister writer - true companion - sister soul - actual kin - How profoundly I
love you and with each succeeding year feel even more [ ] incredulous joy in your dimensions,
variousness and today to know you (all these years) you had actually indicated in use of
language (now and then) your passionate caring for beauty and about what was happening in
this our world).
Today - your poems, your poet self - to take back with me - our immense? hours - [ ], dearest
Adele, this hard journey - this time abroad - what an [ ] you will be to [ ]life all the way.
This and so much else better in a letter - not right as inscription in a book - called Silences to
you whom Silence will never surround.
Tillie
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