Open Places, Number 27 with Tls (C 1979) by Featured Poet Marilyn Hacker to Colleague Lew Ellingham; Also an Autograph Post Card Signed, by Hacker to Ellingham from Rio De Janeiro, March, 1981

8vo; wrappers with portrait photo on cover of Marilyn Hacker. Full page typed letter starts briefly on winter blues & ruptured love followed by a full paragraph on work [inundated], Ellingham's unpublished "The Wounded Laurel", a veto of her submissions to the Little Magazine collective by new "conservative elements" on the magazine staff two of whom she mentions, describing frustration with their obstinacy"Collectivity has it's drawbacks." Married to the writer Samule R. Delaney since 1961, she begins a paragraph: "SF - have you read Chip's (Dealney) last two, Triton & Tales of Neveryon? " More on visiting friends, opera, food and literature. In the post card she reports hanging out with the literary/political dyke community, living four blocks from the beach, a bikini, lavender sunglasses, plastic beach sandals, etc. Includes four pieces by Hacker as well as similar offerings from Judy Katz-Levine, Robley Wilson, Jr. , Jayne Anne Phillips, Stephen Tudor, Tom Disch, Judith Graff, and Jeff Morris.…