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Whatever her skills, she is one of the first Africans to be published in America, and certainly the first African poetess. At the age of 23, she has achieved distinction that can stand without reference to her race...
...forward for the New York Knicks basketball team, former Rhodes scholar and America's top college ballplayer during his Princeton days; and Ernestine Schlant, an associate professor of comparative literature at Montclair State College in New Jersey, who met Bradley while she was working on a film about Poetess Marianne Moore several years ago; in Palm Beach...
Many years and seven volumes later, both the poems and the poetess have changed. Then, the poetry was clearly based on the Cambridge undergraduate experience, intertwined with memories of childhood and adolescence, heavily under the influence of Yeats and Robert Frost, smelling of the New England environment, and with a narrative voice often speaking in the first person masculine. Now the poetry is fully mature, redolent of intense joys and great suffering, aflame with radical and sexual politics, crying the lessons of a militant feminism. Now the poetess, still neatly and modestly dressed but in blue-jeans, has grown through...
ADRIENNE Rich won the competition for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1951 when she was only a senior at Radcliffe. W.H. Auden wrote the introduction to her first book of poems, which was published in the Series. Comparing the poems with the poetess, Auden judged them "neatly and modestly dressed, they speak quietly but do not mumble, respect their elders but are not cowed by them, and do not tell fibs; that, for a first volume is a good deal...
Panelists will include poetess and novelist Alice Walker, also a Radcliffe Institute Scholar; Massachusetts State Representative Doris Bunte...