Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American woman poet.. African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind,/Disdain for all time to be overglad./Among spring flowers, under summer trees./By chilling autumn water... Go to Quote / Comment
Each body has its art... Go to Quote / Comment
Think of thaumaturgic lass Looking in her looking-glass At the unembroidered brown.... Go to Quote / Comment
To say yes is to die A lot or a little. The dead wear capably their wry Enameled emblems. They smell. Go to Quote / Comment
She went in there to muse on being rid Of relative beneath the coffin lid. No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid. Go to Quote / Comment