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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Review
"Always immediate but classic in voice, [Walker's] poetry has a timeless quality. . . . If younger poets have ranged farther in voice and content, it is because they stand high on the shoulders of giants such as Margaret Walker."--Booklist
"A pivotal figure . . . Hers is, in the final analysis, a grand presence that this collected volume of lifetime works affirms."--Belles Lettres
"Walker writes with a strength and clarity that befits her large vision of American and African American history."--Library Journal
