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Contemporary Black Biography The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Further reading

Robert Hayden

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Robert Hayden , 1913–80, American poet, b. Detroit. After earning his M.A. at the Univ. of Michigan, he taught there and at Fisk Univ. Although the tone of his poems is quiet and often loving, he has a considerable gift for irony and his insights can be shattering. His Ballad of Remembrance (1962) was awarded a prize at the World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966.

Bibliography: See his Collected Poems (1985).

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