biography
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Hayden, Robert (Earl)
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originally Asa Bundy Sheffey
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1913–80)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He studied at the University of Michigan (1938; 1942; 1944 MA), and taught there from 1969. He wrote powerful poetry, sometimes using African-American themes, as in The Night-Blooming Cereus (1972). |
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