*AFRICAN American poetry, *BLUES music in literature
Abstract
A critique is presented of African American poems such as "For Malcolm, A Year After" by Etheridge Knight, "Ballad of the Landlord" by Langston Hughes, and "A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon" by Gwendolyn Brooks. The influence of blues music on poetry, the poems' stanzas, and the social conditions of African American poets are discussed.
Published
1997
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