Reed Plates

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    “In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “Realms and islands were
    As plates dropped from his pocket.”
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