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AmLit Test 3
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
04/29/2012

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This author won a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Toni Morrison
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2 MS authors.
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Eudora Welty
Tennessee
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streetcar named desire
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tennessee williams
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the petrified man
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eudora welty
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death of a salesman
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arthur miller
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separating
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john updike
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cathedral
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robert frost
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my papa's waltz
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theodore roethke
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those winter sundays
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robert hayden
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recitatif
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toni morrison
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everyday use
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alice walker
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the walking
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theodore roethke
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elegy for jane
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theodore roethke
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middle passage
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robert hayden
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mr. edwards and the spider
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robert lowell
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skunk hour
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robert lowell
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for the union dead
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robert lowell
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from a street in bronze ville
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gwendolyn brooks
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the mother
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gwendolyn brooks
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the white troops had their orders but the negroes looked like men
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gwendolyn brooks
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we real cool
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gwendolyn brooks
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the last quatrain of the ballad of emmett till
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gwendolyn brooks
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to the diaspora
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gwendolyn brooks
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the jacob's ladder
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denise leverton
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death in mexico
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denise leverton
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so i said i am ezra
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ar ammons
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corsons inlet
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ar ammons
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Easter morning
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ar ammons
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howl
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allen ginsberg
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the starry night
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anne sexton
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sylvia's death
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anne sexton
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morning song
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sylvia plath
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lady lazarus
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sylvia plath
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blackberrying
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sylvia plath
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coal
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audre lorde
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the woman thing
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audre lorde
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harriet
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audre lorde
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an agony. as now.
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amiri baraka (leroi jones)
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miss rosie
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lucille clifton
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the lost baby poem
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lucille clifton
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the mississippi river empties into the gulf
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lucille clifton
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[oh antic god]
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lucille clifton
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forgetfulness
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billy collins
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i chop some parsley while listening to art blakey's version of "three blind mind"
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billy collins
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earth and rain, the plants & sun
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simon j. ortiz
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vision shadows
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simon j. ortiz
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from poems from the veterans hospital
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simon j ortiz
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the glass menagerie is his first success
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tennesse williams
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pulitzer prize winners
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tennesse williams (streetcar)
eudora welty (the optimists daughter)
anne sexton
arthur miller (salesman)
theodore roethke (the waking)
toni morrison (beloved)
qwendolyn brooks (1st black to win for poetry)
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rose tattoo
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tennesse williams
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cat on a hot tin roof
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tennesse williams
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the night of the iguana
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tennesse williams
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this author works of the theme of desire and loneliness
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tennesse williams
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wins the o henry memorial prize for fiction
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eudora welty
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born in england, marries an american and moves to us
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denise leverton
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connects concrete to the invisible
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denise leverton
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relates lines of poetry with breaths taken
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denise leverton
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influenced by a tv show lecture on sonnets
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anne sexton
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wins american academy of arts & letters travellikng fellowships
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anne sexton
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"confessional" poet
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anne sexton
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poetry "should be a shock to the senses. It should also hurt."
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anne sexton
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these authors killed themselves
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anne sexton
sylvia plath
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fulbright scholar at cambridge u.
smith college on scholarship summa cum laude
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sylvia plath
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transmutes domestic & ordinary into hallucinatory
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sylvia plath
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born into german jewish family ikn Manhattan than loses everything in crash
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arthur miller
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first broadway success: all my sons
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arthur miller
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the crucible
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arthur miller
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marries marilyn monroe
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arthur miller
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after the fall
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arthur miller
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incident at vichy
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arthur miller
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contributes to The New Yorker for more than five decades
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john updike
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sets the most imitated writing style of the literary generation
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raymond carver
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"post-alcoholism blue-collar minimalist hyper-realism"
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raymond carver
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greenhouse poems
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theodore roethke
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nat'l book award winners
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theodore roethke (before and after death)
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bollengen prize winners
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theodore roethke
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1st AfAm to be appointed poetry consultant to Library of Congress
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Robert Hayden
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from a new england literary family
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robert lowell
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revises even published poems
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robert lowell
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interest in ruined NE families
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robert lowell
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when he dies at 60, he's the most dominant and honored poet of generation
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robert lowell
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experiments with long lines meant to be read in as much in one breath as possible.
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allen ginsberg
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1st blamerican to win pulitzer for poetry
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qwendolyn brooks
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1st in family to attend college
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lucille clifton
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holds state and federal jobs, never actually studies literature or writing
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lucille clifton
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not published until fifties, wins YW-YMHA poetry center discover award comp
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lucille clifton
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comes from long line of blamerican story tellers (oral tradition)
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robert lowell
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shot in eye with a bb gun when she was young
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alice walker
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taught at jsu
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alice walker
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the color purple
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alice walker
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poet in residence at tougaloo
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audre lord
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poetry wages "war against tyrannies of silence"
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audre lord
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