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24 Cards in this Set
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Claude McKay
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Jamaica; Russian book
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Langston Hughes
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White Godmother; The Negro artist
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Toomer
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looked white; dissappeared
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Edna St Vicent Millay
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bisexual; nearly concert pianist; Greenwich village
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Parker
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"poor son of a bitch"; left all $$ to NAACP in will
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Cummings
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Poem a day 8-22; WWI internment
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Flannery O'Conner
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very Catholic; dev. lupas and died young
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Vonnegut
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WWII journalist; taken prisoner and shoveled bodies; mom=suicide, son=schizo
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Le Guin
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Fantasy writer
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Erdrich
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Ojibua (native american)
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Alice Walker
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shot in eye with bb gun
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Warren
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wanted to be sea captain but brother blinded him with coal
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Roethke
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manic depressive; "won't leave till replaced"
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Bishop
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dad died at 8mos/ mom asylum at 1
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Randall Jarrell
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trained as pilot; celestial instructor
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Allen Ginsberg
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beat poetry
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Plath
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Sexton friend; confessional poet
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Brooks
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1967 2nd black writers conference; black arts movmt
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Rich
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3 kids in 5 yrs; "radicalizing experience"
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Dove
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Shibboleth
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Li Young Lee
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Indonesian; dad chinese exile
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Anne Sexton
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started writing as therapy
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Anne Sexton
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started writing as therapy
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Anne Sexton
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started writing as therapy
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