Kenneth Rexroth

In 1949, the year after her move to the USA, some of DL 's work was included by Kenneth Rexroth in his anthology The New British Poets.

In the USA, DL soon became friends with Robert Creeley and Kenneth Rexroth . From October 1951 she corresponded with William Carlos Williams , to whom she remained close until the end of his life...

It brought her instant fame among the cognoscenti. Kenneth Rexroth later wrote, In no time at all Herbert Read , Tambimutti [sic] , Charles Wrey Gardiner , and incidentally myself, were all in excited correspondence...