Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The most immediately striking aspect o Diaspora is the way it's put together. The dominant impression is one of spaciousness and particles (words, poems) emphasized by their well-planned isolation in white space. Poems flower out onto the pages, or waterfall down them, or squat like fertility goddesses statuesque...
But in Diaspora, there are some writers who are in touch with, continually reach out for, their heritage--Africa, slaveships, plantations, revolts, the crushed hopes of an oppressed people always bubbling up nonetheless through chains and cigarette smoke and broken refrigerators. These writers' best verse is narrative and pithy and...
There are angry poems, nostalgic poems, cynical about the dregs of like poems, ethnic tales, and dreams. Like any publication, there are failures, but most of these words-put-together share successfully what Roberts' opening editorial calls "an attempt to liberate black from the confines of its sound, to bury...
Sally Roberts, the racquetwomen's top entry in the singles tournament, reached the quarter-finals before losing to second seed Sue Graham of Yale, 6-2, 6-0. Graham was a finalist, but lost the championship to Princeton's Linda Rice, 6-0, 7-6.
Mark E. Roberts '77, Diaspora editor, said yesterday, "I'm very happy about our grant. And I don't see Diaspora as a threat to the Advocate."