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  • Robert Hayden
    Robert Hayden

    …his tribute to Malcolm X; The Night-Blooming Cereus (1972), concerned with the meaning of life; Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems (1975); and American Journal (1980). Hayden’s The Collected Prose (1984) and Collected Poems (1985, reprinted, with a new introduction, 1996) were posthumously published.

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    …his tribute to Malcolm X; The Night-Blooming Cereus (1972), concerned with the meaning of life; Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems (1975); and American Journal (1980). Hayden’s The Collected Prose (1984) and Collected Poems (1985, reprinted, with a new introduction, 1996) were posthumously published.

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