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BENT TONES by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT

First Line: THERE WAS A DANCE AT THE BLACK SCHOOL
Last Line: SHE COULD SEE FLOYD LITTLE %CHANGING HIS SHIRT FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; HEAT; POVERTY;

Poem Sources:

TRANSLATIONS OF THE GOSPEL BACK INTO TONGUES.
  WRIGHT, C. D.
  (1982)
 
STEAL AWAY; SELECTED AND NEW POEMS.
  WRIGHT, C. D.
  (2002)
 



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