ABSTRACT
Most of the people Paul Breman published wound up making a big name for themselves in the US, including Robert Hayden. Paul didn't compromise. He had a similar integrity. Remember that a lot of the African-American poetry of the 1960s was very political. He introduced most of the important African-American poets of that time. In his time, when he was publishing the anthologies and the Heritage Series, Paul was committed to publishing good poetry, which was not necessarily mainly political. Sometimes comments were made by African-Americans about other African-Americans who didn't clone themselves into the prevailing literature of the time that such writers weren't "black enough". This man has made one of the finest contributions to African-American literature on either side of the Atlantic. Paul's last letter to Dolores Kendrick about the new book, Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner, was astonishingly frank, supportive and generous.
