(*) Directions like "with a great deliberation and ghostliness" punctuate a poem by this author that describes "cake-walk royalty" and "A minstrel river / Where dreams come true" and claims that "Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you."
The speaker of one poem by this author predicts, "The signs in the street and the signs in the skies / Shall make me a zodiac, guiding and wise" while contemplating a "specious electrical light." In another poem by this author, the speaker addresses an animal that was mourned "in silence and terror and truth" and entreats, "Sleep on, O brave-hearted, O wise man that kindled the flame." (*) Directions like "with a great deliberation and ghostliness" punctuate a poem by this author that describes "cake-walk royalty" and "A minstrel river / Where dreams come true" and claims that "Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you." Another poem by this discoverer of Langston Hughes describes a "master of us all" who "cannot sleep upon his hillside now" and paces in his "famous high top-hat." For 10 points, name this author of "The Eagle that is Forgotten," "The Congo" and "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight."
The speaker of one poem by this author predicts, "The signs in the street and the signs in the skies / Shall make me a zodiac, guiding and wise" while contemplating a "specious electrical light."
(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay