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Robert Gray

Author Biography

Robert Gray is almost good at singing, playing the bass, writing poetry, and keeping his hair combed. His first book, I Wish That I Were Langston Hughes, has recently been published by Negative Capability Press, and he has taught writing and literature at the University of Alabama, Mic ...
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Influences

Wordsworth, Rilke, Tony Harrison, Giovanni, Whitman, Stevens, Lorde, Cervantes, etc.

Favorite Books

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Leaves of Grass, Lyrical Ballads, Clarissa, Huckleberry Finn, Hamlet, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The Awakening, v. and Other Poems, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Favorite Authors

Rainer Maria Rilke, Tony Harrison, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Wallace Stephens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake, William Shakespeare, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes

What I'm Reading

Frankenstein (again, for class)

Articles and Stories

i'm not sure what finally got him

i'm not sure what finally got him
whether it was the cancer
or post-operative complications

i'm also not sure when they decided
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