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The historical part has such poems as Return of the Men, Fingers, Catching the Buffalo, Lady Diana , Chorographer, The parting of Camelot, Like Moses, I am Enola`s Gray Baby. These poems present her different taste and touch. She takes different themes in each poem bubbled with rich imagery and symbolism. The newness of this volume is that the poetess mingles some quotations with the poem and it looks as one.I gave her the first rose
When she told how
She never knew her father
But dreamed Clark was her daddy - A Fiction of the Rose [p.7]
The literary section contains Words become flesh, Clay Boy's Pappy's Idea of Heaven, The Share Cropper, Response to Lucille Clifton`s Signs, Tom Joad Speaks Monologues of the Ladies of Steepletop, Scarlet Dirt, The Horse. This section contains autobiographical touch of poems.You lived like a blade
Of grass
Jewels were your sun
Your water sweet
As Eve's navel
Orange, nourished
On Mother Nature's green. [ Lady Diana p.27]
In the next section 'The Wolf' there are poems on war, patriotism and race war.A world where birds walk
And person fly
The sky is the ground
The ground the sky
The earth the sea
The sea the earth. [Response to Lucile Clifton`s Signs p.77]
The next section 'The domestic' contains poems on women. The poetess has raised such issues as domestic violence and expressed her strong desire for strong feminism.Black baby
No turning back
Drink tonight
For we are under attack. [Black Baby p.109]
When I lay in bed
He permeats
The corners of my body
Blocks me
From everything
But him. [ Prey p.127]
I want to be frozen
Not his inebriated angel
He was , is, will be
I AM THE GREAT I AM [Beautiful Boy p.187]
22-Oct-2012
More by : Prof. Dr. Ram Sharma