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Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing, China on October 5, 1947, to a Chinese mother and American father. Her parents met while her father was working at the American Embassy in Chungking. Her mother was a
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It's March; rain fills seven indentations in a large stone, like a table.
Then twilight, all is permeable, open to relation.
Then the Pleiades at night shine in collected rain; I open myself to receive their reflected light.
Starlight is so bright it seems dark to my unaccustomed eyes, as I enter into a closeness like disorientation.
So long as I feel my family around me, I haven't experienced oneness; it's difficult at night to hold onto self, when earth shifts through transformation.
Bright Pleiades circling night sky I address as sisters, kin, suggesting human form.
I refer more to relation than beings.
Everything seen establishes relation.
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Question:
What American poet is sometimes referred to as the precursor to Edgar Allan Poe?
Answer
Philip Freneau. His poem "The House of Night" anticipates many of the gothic sensibilities which would emerge among writers of the next generation.
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