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6,443 wordsStephen Vincent Ben? t, Editor Excerpt from the Foreword to For My People Straightforwardness, directness, reality are good things to find in a young poet. It is rarer to find them combined with a controlled intensity of emotion and a language that, at times, even when it is most modern, has something of the surge of biblical poetry. And it is obvious that Miss Walker uses that language because it comes naturally to her and is part of her inheritance. A contemporary writer, living in a contempor...
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1,332 wordsExcerpts From Counter Cullen's Forward To Caroling Excerpts From Counter Cullen's Forward To Caroling Dusk Counter Cullen It is now five years since James Weldon Johnson edited with a brilliant essay on " The Negros Creative Genius" The Book of American Negro Poetry, four years since the publication of Robert T. Kerlins Negro Poets and Their Poems, and three years since from the Trinity College Press in Durham, North Carolina, came An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes, edited by N...
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5,136 words" Mantis, " like so much of Zukofsky's work, both reflects his tuition in the " school of Pound" and demonstrates the extent to which he brings a self-consciousness beyond Pounds to that tradition. Like Pounds " Sestina: Altaforte, " " Mantis" is a sestina, a seven-stanza poem in a form invented by Dantes " million faber, " the Troubadour Arnaut Daniel. The requirements of the form are clearly specified and rigorously bind the poet. There is no c...
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3,957 wordsMary J. Carruthers This essay chiefly considers four volumes of poetry, three published in 1978 and one the previous year. They are Adrienne Rich's The Dream of a Common Language, Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn (which includes poems published earlier in a chapbook called Between Our Selves), Judy Grahn's The Work of a Common Woman (a collection of poems previously published by the Feminist Press Collective of Oakland, California), and Olga Broumas Beginning With O. Among them, these volumes art...
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4,784 wordsOn Imagism from Amy Lowell, Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (New York: Macmillan Company, 1917). We are now to deal with the work of the small group of poets known as Imagist's. Later, I shall explain just what are the tenets of the Imagist School, but before beginning on the work of the two poets whose names stand at the head of this chapter, it is proper to state that they only represent a fraction of the Imagist group. Of course, any one who writes poetry from the same point of view migh...
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8,655 wordsDenise Levertov Andre: Prior to the sixties you suppressed the direct autobiographical allusions. But now you seem to be pulling in more actual facts. Would you say again this is related to movements in poetry, such as confessional poetry? Levertov: Im rather antagonistic on the whole to what is called confessional poetry which seems to exploit the private life. Ive even felt that some young poets, students, feel that they have to make a suicide attempt, that they must spend some time in a menta...
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4,685 wordsMark Scroggins " To my wash-stand" begins with a close physical examination of the poets bathroom sink, in which the poet acknowledges that the " song / of water" he hears " is a song / entirely in my head, " and he moves from there into an imaginative re-creation of the morning ablutions of the poor, carefully attentive to what they have and to what they do not have The " flow of water" from the stands two faucets " occasions invertible counterpoints...
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6,421 wordsIn On " Sisters" Annette Kolodny In many ways, Amy Lowell anticipated the recent feminist critique of Bloomian poetics when, in 1925, she applied his question " For why do men write poems? " to " we women who write poetry" : Taking us by and large, were a queer lot We women who write poetry. And when you think How few of us there been, its queerer still. I wonder what it is that makes us do it. She explains why there have been so few women poets by noting that women...
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