Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Getting Out. This is a tale of an orphan of despair, released from jail but not from the cage of her younger mutinous self. Balanced between torment and valiance, Susan Kingsley, an actress of kinetic authority, exemplifies what Archibald MacLeish once said of poetry: "A poem should not mean...
Lorde's unpublished poem "Need", which addressed the supposed need of men to hurt women, drove home the fears and concerns of the audience. The poet based her devastating work on the true case of a Detroit woman who, while auditioning for a role in a play, was killed with a sledgehammer by its young black author during an argument scene--before the eyes of her four-year-old son. In its final, eloquently angry moment, Lorde repeated the plea and statement, "We cannot live without our lives...
...poem mockingly titled "The Evening News," dedicated to exiled struggles of women in America to those of women in Africa. For both, she said, "the question of survival is an ongoing one--not a decision, (but a process...
...next 20 years. This device gave the added ballast of history to Merrill's already established lyric and autobiographical skills; Ephraim's was the spirit of a number of ages, and he proved himself to be a talkative and entertaining tour guide. The imaginary collaboration yielded a poem of rare ambition and scope, a sinuous, sensuous meditation on death and timelessness...
Such encounters haunt the mind after the words are over. Ullman's fluid imagination marks her as the one she addresses in a poem: "You no longer know a difference/ between question and travel...