Malcolm X

As in other texts, Rich's concerns here are significantly though not exclusively feminist. The first poem in the book, Orion, addresses the well-known hunter constellation as my fierce half-brother: he burns for all...

In Make Believe: A True StoryDA again traced the course of an extraordinary literary and erotic relationship: this time with Hakim Jamal (born Alan Donaldson ), a follower of Malcolm X , another writer...

This book seems to be another example of DA 's habit of writing to get rid of painful burdens from the past. She wrote it sixteen years before it was published. After a childhood...

AW writes here about love and disillusionment, about political figures like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King , about writers she admired, like Bessie Head , or like Zora Neale Hurston , Nella Larsen ...