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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Self Doubt of the Writer

I think we have ambivalence about the things we have written and Either decided afterwards not to publish or knew all along they were not meant to be published. What do you do with those things? You keep them You can't burn them The trash I would say there's also this I would put to you something in the end that hearing it again I was drawn to even more which is that you say each night I had to written here is what happened.

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