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“A Black Man Talks of Reaping” by Arna Bontemps
Arna Bontemps, a contemporary of Walker’s and a fellow writer of the Chicago Black Renaissance, penned “A Black Man Talks of Reaping.” Much like Walker’s novel Jubilee, Bontemps’s poem imagines a slave family and reveals the difficulties and generational sorrows of slavery.
“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by E. E. Cummings
Similar in subject to “Love Song for Alex, 1979,” E. E. Cummings’s poem “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” is also a lyric sonnet. The speaker expresses his feelings for his “love” and addresses what will happen to their love after death, as Walker does in her poem.
By Margaret Walker