SOURCE: "The 'Etched Flame' of Margaret Walker: Biblical and Literary Re-Creation in Southern History," in Tennessee Studies in Literature, Vol. XXVI, 1981, pp. 158-72.
Below, Miller explores Walker's use of Biblical allusions in poems from For my People and Prophets for a New Day.
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