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A long poem by this poet promises that if you walk up the Palmolive Building or the Empire State, “below you will spread a strange earth, / beside you will stand a strange man.” That poem by this author calls the Mississippi “sister of the Ganges” after proclaiming that “it is a new America, / to be spiritualized by each new American.” This poet imagined being a drone “getting drunk with silver honey” in the poem “Beehive.” This author of the prophetic poem “The Blue Meridian” wrote, “I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown” in the poem “Harvest (10[1])Song.” A vignette about a girl whose (10[1])“skin is like dusk, / when the sun goes down” (10[1])begins (10[1])a collection by (10[1])this (10[1])grandson (-5[1])of Louisiana governor (10[1])P. B. (10[1])S. Pinchback that includes the story (10[1])“Blood-Burning (10[1])Moon” (10[1]-5[1])and the poem “Georgia Dusk.” (10[2])For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance author (10[1])of the collection Cane. (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[8])

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