A supportive and congratulatory essay about Joy Harjo's unique style of combining her Native American traditions to create a new view of the American landscape.
This is an overview of one of her poetry collections that discuss the different sections of her poems. This poem collection shows the struggles of African Americans and talks about different relationship effects.
An interview with Maya Angelou discussing her writings and the meaning behind it. Then main topic in focus is how her writings portray life of an African American.
Dorothy Parker: An American Centenary
The essay gives an overview of how Dorothy's depressing life has affected her work and of her literary contributions.
A brief article on Gary Snyder's work, "The Call of the Wild". The critical essay talks about how this was yet another one of Snyder's poems that slightly hinted at Buddhist practice. However "The Call of the Wild" was more directly related to examining the Native Americans. The main symbol of this work is the Coyote
Article is an overview of Parker's short stores and of how her stories exemplify the true life of woman during this time; her social satire was in response to the inequalities that she felt of American society.
This page is an overview of Gary Snyder's work, "Anasazi". It talks of how Snyder got the influence he needed from the Native American people to write it.
Source: American Poets, 1880-1945: First Series. Ed. Peter Quartermain. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 45. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. From Literature Resource Center.
Jones analyzes the events in MacLeish's life and analyzes the major trends in his poetry throughout the years.
Critical essay about Baraka's 1967 play "The Toilet", which, like his other works, criticizes racial discrimination in America and empowers the African-American race. By Brenna J. Ryan.