Poetry for Students, Volume 35

However, the 1970s brought a change in the tenor of these protests, and the change was one of greater violence during the first ...

rationing, with outbursts of occasional violence, but that was not the only problem. Inflation was also high, as was unemploymen ...

her work had on her readers. In 1968, Giovanni self-published her first two books of poetry, Black Feeling, Black TalkandBlack J ...

Acolytesdeal with ordinary things, which Lund found ‘‘refreshing,’’ and ‘‘a wonderful balance to some of the grittier topics she ...

future and the expectation that the dark winter will eventually end in a time of rebirth and new opportunities. Giovanni believe ...

‘‘Winter’’ the speaker’s preparations hold the promise of change and hope. The airing of quilts provide a clue to the poet’s exp ...

the African continent, that you are on the oldest continent and the richest, and that you’re with the first people on earth who ...

turn it into another. What I’m trying to say is that, as we are evolving, as the species evolves, we try to make use of all medi ...

Everybody says, ‘‘well, okay, so you wroteThe Bluest Eye...’’;well, everybody was looking for her next book, and they thought, ‘ ...

most poets because you should have some awareness of the profession.... Do you think it’s possible for writers to express their ...

of the writer—is that the writer recognizes what you just expressed and communicates the meaning of some chaotic event or histor ...

formula writers. I think it’s essentially dishonest, but so is the circus, so is the Hall of Mirrors. And one of the things that ...

That certainly is a factor, but don’t you feel power over your own interpretation of the world which really is not dependent upo ...

Frum, David, ‘‘A Harvard Plan for the Working Class Man,’’ inHow We Got Here: The ’70s, the Decade that Brought You Modern Life ...

Words Are the Diminution of All Things In 2004, Charles Wright first published ‘‘Words Are the Diminution of All Things’’ in his ...

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY The great-grandson of two Confederate captains and the son of a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) civil engineer ...

the poem is one in which the poet/speaker consid- ers two worlds: the world of his mind that revolves around words, and the worl ...

words ‘‘one will’’ used twice in a repetition of phrase that gives rhythm to the line. Stanza 2 In this stanza, a repeated phras ...

world. References to silence recur in the poem. At the end of the poem, the poet’s world is wrapped in one big silence, just as ...

to explore the relationship of spirituality to the world around him, to try to decipher the corre- spondence between nature and ...