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...
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Diana Athill
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...
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Diana Athill
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.
Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta.
21 February 1965: Malcolm X, controversial African-American...
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21 February 1965
Malcolm X
, controversial African-American nationalist, was assassinated as he began a speech to followers at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
8 November 1965: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, leader of...
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8 November 1965
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
, leader of the Black radical movement the Black Panthers, was published after his assassination as told to journalist and civil rights activist Alex Haley
.