Saint Dolores

Saint Dolores(Phillips Exeter Academy) Michael S. Harper (bio) Abyssinian, foggy bottom rose: the sable story of morass, the morpho come to quiet costume, life, and alive in the pit of New Hampshire. She could not start here; privileged larvae of the few have eaten at her plumage. She would be old, older than they who want to wear her clothes, skin of cheetah, drape of upas tree: this is their christening to all memory, every song she sings. Michael S. Harper Michael S. Harper is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970. He is the first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island, a post he held from 1988 to 1993. This prize-winning poet is author of ten books of poems, including History Is Your Own Heartbeat, Song: I Want a Witness, Debridement, Nightmare Begins Responsibility, Healing Song for the Inner Ear, and Honorable Amendments. In 1970 and 1977, his poetry collections, Dear John, Dear Coltrane and Images of Kin were nominated, respectively, for the National Book Award. In 1979, he selected and edited The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown for the National Poetry Series. Copyright © 2004 Charles H. Rowell

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