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Robert Lowell: On "Dream Song 29" John Berryman Dream Song 29 Poem Criticism remorse; wonder; nightmare; hazardous; imperfect; mannerism; disintegration; relentless; indulgence
Lynn Keller: On "At the Fishhouses" Elizabeth Bishop At the Fishhouses Poem Criticism fish; fishouses; Moore; grandfather; history; sea; passage of time; symbolism
James E. B. Breslin: On "Skunk Hour" Poem Criticism personal; Hell; orange; heiress; otherness; mythology; skunks
Denis Donoghue on "Huffy Henry" John Berryman The Dream Songs Poem Criticism three; objective; generic; representative; apocalyptic; mankind; consistent; distinct
John Berryman John Berryman The Dream Songs Poem Criticism beat slang; Negro; sequence; Dreams; minstrelsy
Helen Vendler: On "Dream Song 5" John Berryman Dream Song 5 Poem Criticism Henry-dialect; Henry; emotions; personality; psychiatric terms
Gary Smith: On "We Real Cool" Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool Poem Criticism pathos; existential freedom; personae; golden; youthful arrogance; self-definition; Education; alliterative; jazz; June; rape; seduce; sexual climax; Elizabethan
Steven Gould Axelrod: On "Skunk Hour" Robert Lowell Skunk Hour Poem Criticism Catholic; protestant; Boston; emotion; rebellion; social structure
Fred M. Fetrow On "A Letter from Phyllis Wheatley Robert Hayden Poem Criticism psychogram; American black poet; England; Orbour Tanner; Irony; ocean crossing; westward crossing; slave; British Chimney Sweep
Barbara B. Sims: On "We Real Cool" Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool Poem Criticism diction; Rhythm; pride; pathetic; falsehood; Tone
Pontheolla T. Williams: On "A Letter from Phyllis Wheatley" Robert Hayden A Letter from Phillis Wheatley Poem Criticism colonial; slavery; docile; horrrors; middle passage; segregated; Eden; Cannibal Mockingbird; humor; Religion; faith
Jon Woodson: On "Middle Passages" Robert Hayden Middle Passage Poem Criticism The Waste Land; modernist; Stephen Vincent Benet; Christianity; Epic
D. H. Melhem: On "Gay Chaps at the Bar" Gwendolyn Brooks Gay Chaps at the Bar Poem Criticism Harlem Awakening; Sonnet; soldiers; World War II; imagery
Pantheolla T. Williams: On Middle Passage Robert Hayden Middle Passage Poem Criticism origin; relates; Afro-American; hero; alien; slavery; timeless; free; immortal; tribes; Tone; dignified; mystical; lyrical; Narrative; telescoped; greed; gold; fragmentation; Allusion; justice; social-change; iconography; reckless; faith; optimism; black; poet; heritage
John Hatcher on: Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves Robert Hayden Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves Poem Criticism mythological; resilence; symbol; Afro-American; idenitity; survival; strength; fake; culture
Kenny Jackson Williams: On Brooks' Life and Career Gwendolyn Brooks Biographical Chicagoan; South Side; racial dynamics; American Childhood Magazine; Chicago Defender; Pulitzer Prize; Fisk University Second Black Writers' Conference; the black aesthetic; Black Arts movement; urban; objective voice; Harlem Renaissance; Chicago School; poet laureate
On: Robert Hayden's Early Work and Cultural Context General Poet Criticism Drama; resistance; literary models; the diver; to the dead of the international brigade
Criticism of A Letter From Phyllis Wheatly Poem Criticism psychogram; epistolary; dramatic; slave; dark skin; murmur; hissing; idyllic
James D. Sullivan on "We Real Cool" Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool Poem Criticism selected poems; Harper & Row; Broadside Press; Slang; Rythm; Power; We; First person; Cool; Racial; Empowering; Anonymous
Harry B. Shaw: On "Gay Chaps at the Bar" Gwendolyn Brooks Gay Chaps at the Bar Poem Criticism America; Struggle; individualism; racism; WWII; soldiers; Sarcasm; Uncertainty; poverty; youth; ignorance; Religion; music; doubt
Brooks on "Gay Chaps at the Bar Gwendolyn Brooks Other Writing by Poets Sonnet; off-rhyme; solider; Letters; World War II
Gwendolyn Brooks: On "We Real Cool" Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool Poem Criticism We
George Stavros: An Interview on "We Real Cool" Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool Poem Criticism colloquial rhythm; form; feeling; pretensions; Identity
Brad Gooch: On "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island" Frank O'Hara A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island Poem Criticism Koch; anthology; Mayakovsky; conversation; Death; prophetic
Kathryne V. Lindberg: On "of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery" Gwendolyn Brooks of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery Poem Criticism ill-spent; literariness; Parody; whitman
George Stavros: On "Gay Chaps at the Bar" Gwendolyn Brooks Gay Chaps at the Bar Poem Criticism Interview; Gwendolyn Brooks; George Stavros; Sonnet; soldier sonnets; off-rhyme; extensions; letter; form
John Lowney on "A Step Away from Them" Frank O'Hara A Step Away From Them Poem Criticism personal poem; 1950s; contemporary; Time Square; urban scene; Lunch Poems; mortality; Federico Fellini; the Film Industry; Pollock; movies; Manhattan Storage Warehouse; BULLFIGHT; The Day Lady Died; culture
Gladys Margaret Williams: On "Gay Chaps at the Bar" Gwendolyn Brooks Gay Chaps at the Bar Poem Criticism negros; American Armed Forces; World War II; Navy; The Army Air Force; Tuskegee; Sonnet; Caucasian; prejudices; Alabama State Police Force; police; demoralizing; experience
David Lehman: On "Why I Am Not a Painter" Frank O'Hara Why I Am Not a Painter Poem Criticism Natural; Surprises; Relationship; Abstract Expressionism; Anecdote; Degas; Mallarme; Parable; Mike Goldberg; Baudelaire; Rimbaud; Ezra Pound; Ashbery; Irony
Brad Gooch: On "The Day Lady Died" Frank O'Hara The Day Lady Died Poem Criticism Billie Holiday; Mike Goldberg; Joan Mitchell; Norman Bluhm; Five Spot; jazz bar; LeSueur; Kenneth Koch; East Hampton; 1957

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