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    DefenseSquadStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/17/17 8:31pm

    the attention to sound in his rhythmic blank verse and the color and depth of his vision is a loss to the world. I remember reading him for my child’s English class and it has truly stayed with me.

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    World's Moistest Jheri CurlStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/18/17 8:37pm

    Interesting to see how he’s viewed now when many West Indians of the time (Pan Africans) despised him. He bragged about colonialism and both his parents being mulatto.

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    FateStayNiteStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/17/17 8:14pm

    The time will come
    when, with elation
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror
    and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

    and say, sit here. Eat.
    You will love again the stranger who was your self.
    Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
    to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

    all your life, whom you ignored
    for another, who knows you by heart.
    Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

    the photographs, the desperate notes,
    peel your own image from the mirror.
    Sit. Feast on your life.

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    Hoyo AfrikaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/17/17 10:54pm

    I saw this come across those screens they have on the Toronto subway and I wanted to start bawling! Walcott’s impression on young writers such as myself is immeasurable and I hope to do the genius proud. Also, the way he took down that Afrophobic POS Naipaul is legendary!

    http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/literary-smackdown-walcott-vs-naipaul

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