Letter from Laura (riding) Jackson to The Editor of The New York Review of Books, 1975-08-04

"A friend who knows something of my language-studies but is only slightly acquainted with my other work, early and later, has sent me a copy of Mr. Paul Auster's review of my books Selected Poems: In Five Sets and The Telling published in your issue of August 7th, commenting on it as "a rather nice review". It is not a nice review, as my friend would know if he had better acquaintance with my work in the whole, and experienced sense of the procedures followed by poets, poet-critics, writer-critics, who have work-of-their-own, or special literary alliances, to grind."