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FLOWERS OF DARKNESS by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS

Poet Analysis

First Line: SLOWLY THE NIGHT BLOOMS, UNFURLING
Last Line: WITH YOU AND THE BLOSSOMIG NIGHT %FOR WHAT FLOWER, PLUCKED, %LINGERS LONG?
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; FLOWERS;

Poem Sources:

AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY.
  BONTEMPS, ARNA (ED.)
  (1963)
 
I AM THE DARKER BROTHER; AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POEMS BY NEGRO AMERICANS.
  ADOFF, ARNOLD (ED.)
  (1968)
 
THE POETRY OF BLACK AMERICA; ANTHOLOGY OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
  ADOFF, ARNOLD (ED.)
  (1973)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. 3RD ED. ED, BY ALEXANDER ALLISON, BLAKE HERBERT, ET AL.
  ALLISON, ALEXANDER (ED.)
  (1983)
 
BLACK VOICES; AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE.
  CHAPMAN, ABRAHAM (ED.)
  (2001)
 



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