Here is a
link to a great interview with Morrison on the eve of her 1993 Nobel Prize win. In it, she touches on, among other things, her writing routines and how she was always unapologetic in her focus on the black American experience. ‘... It’s very important to me that my work be African American,’ says she, ‘if it assimilates into a different or larger pool, so much the better. But I shouldn’t be asked to do that. Joyce is not asked to do that. Tolstoy is not. I mean, they can all be Russian, French, Irish or Catholic, they write out of where they come from, and I do too. It just so happens that that space for me is African American...’
And here is a
link to an excerpt of her prose from
Sula selected by the Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy.
P.S. John, the number of comments is not necessarily a reliable index to the degree of appreciation among Spherians. How many did not have time in the short interval you cited, had nothing to say not already said perfectly well, did not log on, or did not comment for any number of other reasons otherwise than lack of appreciation? Also, mind you she is not a poet. Myself, I thought there was a decent amount and did not expect cascades pouring in on all sides for any novelist alive or dead necessarily. Still, sorry you are disappointed, if you are, only I would not put so much into it I think.