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Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa was born James Willie Brown Jr. on April 29, 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisianna, the segregated mill town where he was raised. He was the first of five children born to James Willie Brown, a carpenter, and
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Memory of the Murdered Professors at the Jagiellonian
After Hasior
They fired a bullet into the head
of each question, trying to kill Kant’s
unending argument with Hegel.
5They burned laws, moral codes,
& the Golden Means. Anyone
serving tea & cookies to Death,
looking or acting as if he knew love,
stood before the firing squad.
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What two female poets, and rivals, were in the same poetry workshop at Boston University, taught by Robert Lowell?
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Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
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