Reviewer Lucinda Roy
in Callaloo considered MS
's poetry to be part of a war against the status quo. Her battle is fought to counter white feminists, fascists, rapists, and the internal fears of an...
Literary responses
Maud Sulter
Callaloo reviewer Lucinda Roy
found this collection less compelling than As a Blackwoman. She thought the poems less deeply personal, and felt that MS
used time-worn symbols instead of more original and appropriate images...
Author summary
Maud Sulter
MS
was a Black British poet, journalist, artist and political activist; she often produced visual and written works in linked pairs. In her poetry, her photographs, her artworks, and her essays, novel, and play, she...
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Texts
Roy, Lucinda. “The Search for the Body Personal”. Callaloo, Vol.
13
, No. 3, John Hopkins University Press, pp. 551-5.