The speaker of a poem by this author tells a man that "Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me" and states "I like a pipe for Christmas, or records."
The speaker of a poem by this author tells a man that "Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me" and states "I like a pipe for Christmas, or records." Another poem by this author imagines a "Tomorrow" when "Nobody'll dare say to me, 'Eat in the kitchen.'" This author described how "the stars went out and so did the moon" before a character sleeps "like a (*) rock or a man that's dead" in his poem about a man on a "rickety stool" who drones "a drowsy syncopated tune." One of this writer's poems repeats that "my soul has grown deep" like the title places. For 10 points, name this leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance and poet of "I, Too," "Theme for English B," "The Weary Blues," and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
The speaker of a poem by this author tells a man that "Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me" and states "I like a pipe for Christmas, or records."
Langston Hughes [or James Mercer Langston Hughes]