Reviews the poetry of Derek Walcott, a native of the West Indies, whose new volume 'Another Life' more resembles the poet-artists commentary on a gallery of scenes and portraits in Melvin Tolson's 'The Harlem Gallery' than anything else that has come from the English speaking Caribbean in the post-war period. (Author/JM)

Suggests that the assumption that the theme of anti-rationalism in Jones is an attack on reason as such and that such a theme rests on an exclusive commitment to the irrational needs to be tested. (Author/AM)

Noting that his book, "Understanding the New Black Poetry" (Morrow 1973), attempted to sketch a critical framework which would help make the poetry accessible to a larger number of people, the author examines some questions raised there which need some systematic response. (Author/JM)

Asserts that "before we can begin to discuss American literature as a national literature, we have to first decide that we have a nation.""When and if we reach the decision, we will be in a position to say how the national literature enters indigenous American and African traditions." (Author/JM)

An analysis of the use of the techniques of repetition, rhythm, images, and contrasts in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. (EH)

Works of this Black French poet reviewed are "Soleil Serpent", Interlude", and Nous Savoir". (KG)

The author analyzes 3 poems of Langston Hughes in order to demonstrate how a skillful use of the techniques available to a poet reinforce the logical structure which must be behind any serious poet's attempts to reproduce symbolically that which his mind has found significant in the non-linguistic environment. (Author/LF)

Asserts that, contrary to the opinion of some, there is a Black American literary tradition. Examines definitions and issues fundamental to understanding that tradition, possible reasons for previous failures to identify a Black American tradition, and elements that scholars need to analyze as they try to describe the common characteristics of…

Presents a unit on Black American poetry by approaching it in five categories: slavery, acquiescence, integration, separatism, and militancy. (MM)

Discusses the dreams for security, for brotherhood, and for self-realization in the poems of Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and LeRoi Jones. (RD)

A young Chicago poet explores the black literary scene and exposes new vistas of understanding and possibility. (DM)

Afro-American poets, dramatists, and prose writers have been affected by the tension between traditional African oral modes and various European-American written genres, as well as by the merger of "white taste and black need," which can be seen by examining the styles and themes of black literature in America from Lucy Terry's 1746 poem "Bar's…