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In the chapter "Beyond Sandy Hook," this poet described throwing his textbooks into the ocean. This poet declared "I'm the man who sailed those early seas" in a poem that asks "Who said the free? … Surely not me?" This author of the autobiography The Big Sea wrote "the stars went out and so did the moon" before a man "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." This poet wrote "I've seen its (*) muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset" and "I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young." This poet wrote "my soul has grown deep like the rivers," and in another poem, asks whether one concept will "dry up / like a raisin in the sun?" For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet of Montage of a Dream Deferred. ■END■

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