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Seo, Haeryen. “The Strategy of Poetry Writing and Bad Men in the Early Poems of Ntozake Shange.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 41.1 (2015): 85-104. As a revolutionary poet, playwright, novelist, performance artist and black feminist Ntozake Shange has perhaps been most criticized and blamed for her portrayal of black men. Shange's impertinent voice on both characterizing of the black male and subverting the syntactic structure of the standard English in her works lets the readers see her works as a black feminist's ruthless and unjustified attack on all the black men. The characteristic traits of the black men in her early poems converge into physical violence, abuse, deception and irresponsibility. Shange’s poems present and attack a group of bad guys. “Some Men” highlights the malignant presentation of bad men through 10 poems. They are arrogant, ruthless and abnormal psychologically and sexually in front of the women. She expands the theme into a deeper exploration of American racism in the lives of African-American women, their socioeconomic and cultural disenfranchisement, and sexism within African-American communities. (Woosuk University)