SOURCE: "Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in the Poetry of Margaret Walker," in Black Women Writers (1950-1980), edited by Mari Evans, Anchor Books, 1984, pp. 499-510.
Collier discusses Walker's use of Black myth and ritual in the poems of For my People and Prophets for a New Day.
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