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Book excerpt online; highlights Broughton's achievements.

A book review on "No Nature", written by Gary Snyder

Anne Sexton: A Biography; book review

A book review of "Conversations with Rita Dove"- which contains a volume of interviews. It reveals her unique and creative writing techniques in which she claims her literary independence.

This is a somewhat extensive biography of Joy Harjo. I skipped to the sidelights section because it gives more important information about Harjo's writing influences. The sidelights section also provides commentary about Harjo's books and poetry from critics-incorporates direct quotes.

"Published in 1986, Bly's first selected poems differs significantly from his more recent selection, Eating the Honey of Words. Bly radically revises poems from Sleepers Joining Hands especially. Each section is prefaced with brief but illuminating essays tracing the evolution of Bly's poetry from book to book." (Robertbly.com)

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|H1420035741&v=2.1&u=hayw93983&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w This document reviews the many different themes in Maya Angelou's work - both autobiography and poems, which include how her view on identity, relationships, and racial profiling in America.

Review on a book of the full collections by Maya Angelou

These 1977 prose poems delight in the wild "leaps" and associative connections discovered by the meditative mind in solitude. A showcase for Bly's imaginative reach at its most muscular, this book features one of Bly's most ecstatic affirmations of physical love, "We Love This Body," as well as the famous poem, "Finding the Father."

Carl Sandburg's poetry is discussed in this article. It gives biographical information about how and when his poetry was published.

Critical appraise for Dorothy Parker's poems and analyzes her form of writing, especially the structure of her poems.