![]() ![]() And so on through wry reflections and sad/sweet laments and anguished protests to Margaret Walker's last line (in ""For My People""): ""Let a race of men rise and take control."" Six spare, suggestive drawings by Benny Andrews accompany, biographical sketches and notes explaining specific references conclude. Davis) to ""Middle Passage"" (Robert Hayden) Shah Be Remembered celebrates Malcolm X (LeRoi Jones) and Charlie Parker (Owen Dodson) among others. Like I Am includes three distinct responses to the ghetto from Gwendolyn Brooks Genealogy ranges from ""Southern Mansion"" (Arna Bontemps) to ""Dust Bowl"" (Robert A. ![]() From any point of view-as corrective or call to color or self-contained collection-it's a fine assortment, grouped under six relevant themes. ![]() I'm like that old mule-/ Black-and don't give a damn!/ You got to take me/ Like I am."" Langston Hughes' affirmation leads off, supplies a title for the first section and suggests the stance of the book, the emphasis on the particularity of the Negro's experience which distinguishes this from anthologies of poets who happen to be Negro. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |