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        <![CDATA[ Experience this diverse and dazzlingcollection of American black verse excerpted from The Vintage Book of African American Poetry. ]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[ LANGSTON HUGHES ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>I Too Sing America</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><br>I, too, sing America.<br>I am the darker brother.<br>They send me to eat in the kitchen<br>When company comes,<br>But I laugh,<br>And eat well,<br>And grow strong.<br><br>Tomorrow,<br>I'll be at the table<br>When company comes.<br>Nobody'll dare<br>Say to me,<br>&quot;Eat in the kitchen,&quot;<br>Then.<br><br>Besides, <br>They'll see how beautiful I am<br>And be ashamed--<br><br>I, too, am... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Countee Cullen ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Countee Cullen, born in 1903, was raise in New York City, attending De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx and New York University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Cullen excelled early as a student and by his undergraduate years weas publishing accomplished, mature verse. He continued his studies at Harvard University, sharpening his formal craftmanship under the poet Rober Hillyer. Cullen published his first volume of poetry, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Color</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Paul Laurence Dunbar ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Paul Larence Dunbar is one of the two or three greatest pots in the African American Tradition, and one of the greaest American poets. Born and educated in Dayton, Ohio, Dunbar wrote extensively in both black dialect and standard English. With the 1896 publication of <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Lyrics of Lowly Life</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> and its introduction by William Dean Howells, Dunbar rose to a qualified fame among both whites and blacks... Harper &amp; Walton, The Vintage Book... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Claude Mckay ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <strong>T</strong>he verse of Claude McKay sits at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Negotiated carefully between form and content
and conveyed in the forceful economy of his lines, McKay&#39;s poems speak with unambiguous clarity against the manifestations of racism in the
early-twentieth-century mentropolis. Particulary of not is his use of the sonnet as a vehicle for social argument, exemplified by McKay&#39;s composition, in
the aftermath of the tragic race riots of 1919, of &quot;If... ]]></description>

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