Question

In one poem, this author says “You put me in Macbeth and Carmen Jones… And in everything but what’s about me!” This author claimed “I like to eat, sleep, drink, (20[1])and be in love” in (20[1])a poem where he asks for a pipe (20[1])or (20[1])“Bessie, bop, or Bach” (20[9])records (20[1])for (20[2])Christmas. (20[2])This author of “Note on Commercial Theater” is instructed (0[1])to “go home and write a page tonight” (20[1])in one poem. (20[2])A man (*) sways “to and fro on his rickety stool” in a poem by this author in which the central figure sleeps “like a rock or a man that’s dead.” (10[1])A piano-playing man with “ebony hands on each ivory key” (10[1])who drones “a drowsy (10[1])syncopated tune” (10[1])is described (10[1])in a poem by this author set (10[1])“down on Lenox Avenue.” (10[1])For 10 points, what Harlem Renaissance (10[1])author (10[2])wrote (10[1])“The Weary Blues?” (10[3])■END■

ANSWER: Langston Hughes [or James Mercer Langston Hughes] (The unnamed poem is “Theme for English B.”)
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - American - Poetry&gt; ~24954~ &lt;Editor: Chandler West>
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