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| mr. edwards and the spider |
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| from a street in bronze ville |
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| the white troops had their orders but the negroes looked like men |
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| amiri baraka (leroi jones) |
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| the mississippi river empties into the gulf |
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| i chop some parsley while listening to art blakey's version of "three blind mind" |
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| earth and rain, the plants & sun |
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| from poems from the veterans hospital |
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| the glass menagerie is his first success |
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tennesse williams (streetcar)
eudora welty (the optimists daughter)
anne sexton
arthur miller (salesman)
theodore roethke (the waking)
toni morrison (beloved)
qwendolyn brooks (1st black to win for poetry) |
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| this author works of the theme of desire and loneliness |
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| wins the o henry memorial prize for fiction |
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| born in england, marries an american and moves to us |
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| connects concrete to the invisible |
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| relates lines of poetry with breaths taken |
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| influenced by a tv show lecture on sonnets |
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| wins american academy of arts & letters travellikng fellowships |
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| poetry "should be a shock to the senses. It should also hurt." |
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| these authors killed themselves |
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fulbright scholar at cambridge u.
smith college on scholarship summa cum laude |
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| transmutes domestic & ordinary into hallucinatory |
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| born into german jewish family ikn Manhattan than loses everything in crash |
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| first broadway success: all my sons |
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| contributes to The New Yorker for more than five decades |
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| sets the most imitated writing style of the literary generation |
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| "post-alcoholism blue-collar minimalist hyper-realism" |
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| theodore roethke (before and after death) |
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| 1st AfAm to be appointed poetry consultant to Library of Congress |
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| from a new england literary family |
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| revises even published poems |
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| interest in ruined NE families |
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| when he dies at 60, he's the most dominant and honored poet of generation |
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| experiments with long lines meant to be read in as much in one breath as possible. |
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| 1st blamerican to win pulitzer for poetry |
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| 1st in family to attend college |
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| holds state and federal jobs, never actually studies literature or writing |
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| not published until fifties, wins YW-YMHA poetry center discover award comp |
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| comes from long line of blamerican story tellers (oral tradition) |
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| shot in eye with a bb gun when she was young |
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| poet in residence at tougaloo |
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| poetry wages "war against tyrannies of silence" |
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