A long poem by this poet promises that if you walk up the Palmolive Building or the Empire State, “below you will spread a strange earth, / beside you will stand a strange man.” That poem by this author calls the Mississippi “sister of the Ganges” after proclaiming that “it is a new America, / to be spiritualized by each new American.” This poet imagined being a drone “getting drunk with silver honey” in the poem “Beehive.” This author of the prophetic poem “The Blue Meridian” wrote, “I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown” in the poem “Harvest Song.” A vignette about a girl whose “skin is like dusk, / when the sun goes down” begins a collection by this grandson of Louisiana governor P. B. S. Pinchback that includes the story “Blood-Burning Moon” and the poem “Georgia Dusk.” For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance author of the collection Cane. ■END■
ANSWER: Jean Toomer [or Nathan Pinchback Toomer]
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