Harper, Michael S., 1938-2016
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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found: His Dear John, dear Coltrane, 1970.
found: His Healing song for the inner ear, c1984:CIP title page (Michael Harper) data sheet (b. 3/18/38)
found: BL AL recd. 20 Oct. 1988(Michael Steven Harper, born 18 Mar. 1938)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed May 11, 2016(in obituary published May 10: Michael S. Harper; b. Michael Steven Harper, Mar. 18, 1938, Brooklyn; grew up in the borough's Bedford-Stuyvesant section; d. Saturday [May 7, 2016], aged 78 (details on where he died were not immediately available); his allusive, jazz-inflected poems interwove his personal experiences as a black man with an expansive view of a history shared by black and white Americans; was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry in 1978; taught at Brown University, 1970-2013)
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1980-07-17: new
2023-07-12: revised
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