The Tensions of a Black Writer

Every context in which he moved people were trying to basically get a piece of him and line up in various ways. As Anthony said, changed in these contexts as he was trying to negotiate all these different expectations that people had of him. At this point of tension continued on for some time and that he's thinking about himself as a black poet. He struggled against the view of him as the writer that he had been in his 20s. For some he was in the 30s especially, Jews, the communists and particularly important for the folks in the Soviet Union in Spain he was an offshoot of Jews, the anti-fascist.