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Friday Jul 30, 2004 8:34 am
Literary merit in an election season
The role of poetry in campaigns?
The Guardian takes it up.
"Kerry has embraced a legitimate American hero, one who speaks out for those who feel excluded. For all his scepticism about America's failures, Langston Hughes, with his emphasis on inclusion, is closer to the American Dream than President Bush has ever been."
The Guardian takes it up.
"Kerry has embraced a legitimate American hero, one who speaks out for those who feel excluded. For all his scepticism about America's failures, Langston Hughes, with his emphasis on inclusion, is closer to the American Dream than President Bush has ever been."
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“If you come to my funeral
Come dressed in Red
‘Cause I got no business
Being dead.”
—Langston Hughes
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