Wednesday, January 21, 2009

"I, Too"

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes....

-Langston Hughes

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*A day later I find out I'm not crazy in finding the comparison, one that I think goes beyond race. Here, on the Library of Congress' inclusion of a poem Obama wrote when he was 19 (which is actually pretty good imo), Yale Professor Harold Bloom instantly compared it to Hughes.

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