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Mari Evans: Idiom is larger...

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Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

Source: My Father's Passage, in Black Women Writers.
-- Mari Evans, (Jul 16 1923-2017), US poet, educator, editor; She has written several volumes of poetry and edited the critical anthology Black Women Writers: 1950-1980.

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