Nataila Tarasova  /  Correspondence 20

And so, here is the last part of Sintaksis. Forgive me for some slowdowns with the mailing of this final portion.

I don’t know whether you agree with me that among the poems in it there are a lot of weak and simply bad ones. Nonetheless...

Finally the entire Sintaksis arrived and I am very grateful to you. Again I would like to express my deepest appreciation for that and the trouble you went through with retyping and mailing it. Thank you, thank you. <...>

Regarding your response to Sintaksis...

I’m rushing to respond and thank you for Brodsky’s poems and to ask you to give me permission to publish Sintaksis. You have given me a great joy!

Both conditions you have stipulated are truly easy to accomplish. I’m attaching to this letter a check for 25 dollars for the photocopies of Sintaksis and shipping...

I read “The Tale of the Bluebottle” in No. 52 of Grani with great interest. I saw this work last year as a manuscript in England. The condescending and dismissive review of it by Yu. K. Terapiano in Russkaia Mysl’ upset and disappointed me...