I'm reading my correspondence with Maz. I was worried about her poems being sufficiently and safely published, so I asked about it. It would be good to know which press was nagging her.
Me: How do you feel about publishing in general, Margaret, if you don't mind me asking. Are you ambitious about publishing?
Maz: Re publishing, I really couldn't care less. I've had the editor of a small UK poetry press nagging at me for over 2 years to send him a 60 page manuscript--but ohmigod--60 pages of poems I'd have to consider 'finished'--the idea makes me weak at the knees. Truth is that what I enjoy is the process of writing the poems, gathering them up afterwards and scraping them into some sort of order for a book--nightmare. I don't kid myself that I'm a 'Poet'--I just can't seem to stop writing poems for some reason.
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