LETTER: Autograph letter signed, 4 Typed letters signed, and 2 Typed Poems addressed to poet and Editor of Voyages, William Claire.
Jan 21, 1971, Mar 1, 1971, Sept. 24, 1972, Feb. 8, 1973. TLS, Jan 21, 1971: Stanford offers two of her books for review and also wonder what has happened with the Swallow project.
ALS, Mar 1, 1971: Stanford notes that she has asked her publishers to send along the books for review and suggests university presses that might be interested in the Swallow book.
TLS, Feb 8, 1971: Stanford remarks on the death of Mark Van Doren "I feel that I have lost a special friend ..." and again inquires about the poems that she has sent Claire.
TLS, Sept. 26, 1972. Written to accompany "some poems that I have been able to find among my papers' and remarks: “I’ve been spending quite a bit of time on the Baroque Ode on Music that is enclosed."
Two fair copy poems, typed: "The Man in Blue" and "Love Song"
TLS, March 27, 1973: Four paragraphs: Stanford explains why she split the word "only" into two lines in her poem, "Also when you split a word, sometimes the two morphemes stand out better. Here the meaning "one" becomes clearer and "only" becomes more important as a result." In the third paragraph she talks about her anthology, "The Women Poets in English" and Adrienne Rich has reviewed it and she regrets that she did have space for more poets, especially Linda Pastan and Myra Sklarew, "both of whose poetry I like." A fine letter.
Stanford was born in LaHabra, California and graduated from Stanford University in 1938. She was long time teacher at California State University, Northridge. Since 1988 a poetry prize has been awarded in her name. She won two National Endowment awards, the Pushcart Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the DiCastagnola Award for Poetry. She was the author of 11 books of poetry as well as other works.
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