SOURCE: Berke, Nancy. “Anything That Burns: The Social Poetry of Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, and Margaret Walker.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 37 (November 1998): 39-53.
In the following essay, Berke calls attention to the often-neglected socially conscious poetry of three writers, including Walker's For My People.
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