In one poem, this poet compared a Caribbean sunset to "God having a hemorrhage." Another of this writer's poems ends "Beautiful, also, is the sun. / Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people." This poet wrote about a singer who "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" after "droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking bac
In one poem, this poet compared a Caribbean sunset to "God having a hemorrhage." Another of this writer's poems ends "Beautiful, also, is the sun. / Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people." This poet wrote about a singer who "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" after "droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon," in "The Weary Blues." His poetry collections include Fine Clothes to the Jew and Shakespeare in Harlem. For 10 points, name this author of Montage of a Dream Deferred and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
In one poem, this poet compared a Caribbean sunset to "God having a hemorrhage."
Langston Hughes