From Library Journal
From the opening lines of For My People (winner of the 1942 Yale Younger Poets award) to the last of a recently written group of poems titled "Farish Street," Walker writes with a strength and clarity that befits her large vision of American and African American history. She assumes the role of spokesperson and in the service of that role employs a multitude of techniques and inspirations: folklore, scriptural rhythms, ballad meter, sonnet forms, the Egyptian deities, political rhetoric. In planting her "seeds of dreams and visions and prophecies . . . fantasies of freedom and of pride," the poet weaves personal memories and experiences within the larger fabric of racial identity, thereby enriching it.
- Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Synopsis
This is Margaret Walker's own summation of her career in poetry. Selected by the author herself, the 100 poems include 37 previously uncollected pieces and the entire contents of three volumes: "For My People" (1942); "Prophets for a New Day" (1970); and "October Journey" (1975).