The poem began from a childhood memory that I hold dear because it's an instance of a child caring for another, then it turned towards creative possibilities that only poetry has room for.
Ajibola Tolase on "Dolls" |
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"Nikki Giovanni’s Poetry was a Platform for Truth-Telling"
"Giovanni was African American from the peel to the core, but she reminded me of my Jamaican mother and the resilient women of her church who spoke simply, with gravitas. From her poems, it’s clear that Giovanni had an aversion to pretension. Form was important but fundamentally her poetry was a platform for truth-telling. She was a straight shooter and would take her argument to the man, black or white."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry: Cynthia Cruz on Reading Prose
"With capitalism, this constructive destruction is perverted and, instead of constructivity arising from destruction, we have only pure destruction. Stanzas four through six speak to this destruction, capitalism’s contamination. In, for example, the lines, 'Damage/from the inside,' the contamination occurs through subject formation which means it happens internally, through the mind." |
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