Poetry for Students, Volume 31

he called ‘‘outsiders, pariahs, losers.’’ Such works range in content, coverage, and theme from psy- chological profiles of fict ...

rank of contemporary American poets. The same history for which he had such a great respect will in time return that respect in ...

And the name on the books was dead, like the life my mother fled, like the life I—might have known. You don’t exist—at least not ...

just such a person once, and his initial poetic documentation of the encounter exhibits little curiosity and less compassion. As ...

From the solitary confinement of his prison cell Malcolm evolves into a militant racist with an almost noble hatred. Only late i ...

American black experience. He read American history as a long, tortuous struggle in psychic evolution, an exercise in humanity. ...

Asa Sheffey but raised as Robert Hayden (a dual- ity that haunted him) and he knew both his nat- ural and foster parents. He was ...

But Hayden was not a confessional poet like so many of his contemporaries because, as he acknowledged he enteredhis own experien ...

azure’’ world of disquieting natural beauty into which the awestruck persona of Hayden’s ‘‘The Diver’’ descends. But lest we ove ...

high price of what would be a recurrent accusa- tion: that he had abandoned his people and his political commitments for a poetr ...

elements of Hayden’s Bahai faith veer unperturb- ingly but less arrestingly toward the sectarian and declamatory. ‘‘Double Featu ...

Probably everything that needs to be said about being a black artist in America was said by Langston Hughes nearly fifty years a ...

Robert Hayden’s style and talent can best be seen in the title poem of his prize winning book, ‘‘A Ballad of Remembrance.’’ The ...

Source:Michael Paul Novak, ‘‘Meditative, Ironic, Richly Human: The Poetry of Robert Hayden,’’ inMidwest Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. ...

Some People Like Poetry Originally published in Polish as ‘‘Niektorzy lubia poezje’’ in the volumeKoniec i poczatek(1993; the ti ...

in that it approaches a broad topic with great philosophical scope and yet treats the serious subject in an ostensibly lighthear ...

question of who these ‘‘some’’ people are who like poetry, not counting students or poets, is approximately two people in every ...

some time is tied up intrinsically with memory and emotional attachment. Liking to have one’s way is about personal satisfaction ...

instead turning to what it truly is. When con- fronted with the question of what poetry is, exactly, Szymborska embraces a willf ...

school, where, she posits, you are required to like it. The irony in this line concerns the students who do, in reality, like po ...