Miguel Barnet

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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Born	January 28, 1940 (age 85) • Havana • Cuba
Notable Works	“Biography of a Runaway Slave” • “Rachel’s Song”

Maxine Hong Kingston

Chinese-American author

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Heberto Padilla

Cuban poet

Antonio Benítez Rojo

Cuban writer

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Cuban author

Virgilio Piñera

Cuban writer

Daína Chaviano

Cuban author

Reinaldo Arenas

Cuban writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Sylvia Plath

American author

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Langston Hughes

American poet

John G. Neihardt

American poet

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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