A poem by this author describes a figure who sees underwater: "the sad slow / dance of gilded / chairs" and "the ectoplasmic / swirl of garments." The speaker of one of this author's poems has a vision of angels at war with each other in a "brightness / so bright that it was darkness."
A poem by this author describes a figure who sees underwater: "the sad slow / dance of gilded / chairs" and "the ectoplasmic / swirl of garments." The speaker of one of this author's poems has a vision of angels at war with each other in a "brightness / so bright that it was darkness." Another of this author's poems describes ships with "bright ironical names / like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth." That poem by this author parodies Shakespeare with the refrain "Deep in the festering hold thy father lies." His collection A Ballad of (*) Remembrance includes the "The Ballad of Nat Turner."  He asked: "What did I know / of love's austere and lonely offices?" in a poem that describes listening to his hard-working father splintering wood to build fires on weekend mornings. He wrote about the slave trade in his poem "Middle Passage." For 10 points, name this 20th-century African-American poet of "Those Winter Sundays."
A poem by this author describes a figure who sees underwater: "the sad slow / dance of gilded / chairs" and "the ectoplasmic / swirl of garments." The speaker of one of this author's poems has a vision of angels at war with each other in a "brightness / so bright that it was darkness."
Robert Hayden [or Asa Bundy Sheffey] 