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ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 2 by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR

First Line: THIS NIGHT, THIS CLEAR INSOMNIA, I REMEMBER YESTERDAY AND
Last Line: AND SENEGAL HARDER THAN AFRICA IN NINETEEN HUNDRED AND %SIXTY-EIGHT!
Subject(s): NEGRITUDE (LITERARY MOVEMENT);

Poem Sources:

CINCINNATI POETRY REVIEW, #21, SPRING /90.
  (1990)
 
THE COLLECTED POETRY. MELVIN DIXON (TR.)
  SENGHOR, LEOPOLD SEDAR
  (1991)
 



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