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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Yes, but not really as large in my heart as my first little publication

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we worked so strenuously at it, and Dudley is such a taskmaster, and I am so flighted, and it was really quite an experience

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and the whole Detroit was interested.
It was their book too and bell island, green man, and Detroit,

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and all of these took part in making it of a very sensitive sessions of my life.

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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
I think Dudley described this business of two poets publishing points on the same thing

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like similar to a boxing match where you try to out do each other thematically, right.

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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Oh yes, and we were very the thing that was so

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exciting to me about Dudley Randell is that he is an honest critic.

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He said "I don't like that now do I don't like yours and mines better" and that type of thing,

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and that way we were able, I think, to hone our work to the extent that it was lifted a little.

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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
It's interesting, Dudley was a librarian, and of course Arna Bontemps was also a librarian,

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and these people who can anthologize and can help get a large amount of the work of black people published seems as if the librarian is high on the list.

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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Yes it might be good for poets to find librarian friends.

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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
Right? They certainly read more than general public.

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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}
Let me ask a question here, Mrs. Danner, and that is what specifically do you trying to do most in your work.

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Some oranges have their own particular veins that they're drawn to travel in. What's your vein, what are you trying to say?

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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
What I try to do is contain myself to the writing of good poetry,
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because if I didn't do that, I would just write and write and write and fall in love-