In The Sparrow's Plight: Woes of a 21st Century Black Poet, Terry A. O'Neal divulges a woman's scrapes against reality with intensity and specific details particular to a focused bird's eye view. This writing is not bogged down in abstract intellect. O'Neal examines a shared feminine existence -- sans dogma -- as she represents the weak and delicate, lost and downtrodden, even the absurd. She exposes through their weaknesses an inner strength as they rallied to carry on. She investigates weighty themes in taut, concise poems trimmed of artifice with poems that simply and gracefully state the...
In The Sparrow's Plight: Woes of a 21st Century Black Poet, Terry A. O'Neal divulges a woman's scrapes against reality with intensity and specific det...
