Marilyn Hacker (review date 3 December 1982)
SOURCE: A review of Some One Sweet Angel Chile, in Commonweal, Vol. CIX, No. 21, December 3, 1982, p. 668.
[Hacker is an American poet and critic. In the following, she offers praise for Some One Sweet Angel Chile.]
Some One Sweet Angel Chile, by Sherley Anne Williams speaks in tongues and sings in many voices. It begins with an elegant and revelatory series of epistolary poems, "Letters From a New England Negro," written in the persona of an educated young black woman gone south, in...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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