Libretto for the republic of Liberia
by Melvin B Tolson, preface by Allen Tate
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A small African republic founded by liberated slaves celebrates its centenary by getting an American Negro poet to write what, in the end, is an English Pindaric ode in a style derived from--but by no means merely imitative of--one of the most difficult modem poets.What irony we are entitled to infer from Mr. Tolson's official appointment to this job I am not prepared to guess. I leave the question with the remark that I cannot imagine a white American poet of equal distinction being given a similar job by President Truman.
For there is a great gift for language, a profound historical sense, and a first-rate intelligence at work in this poem from first to last. On the first page I received a shock, in that region where bored scepticism awaits the new manuscript from a poet not clearly identified, when I saw Liberia invoked as
. . . the quicksilver sparrow that slips The eagle's claw!
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