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Heart-Shape in the Dust

poetry by Hayden

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His first collection of poems, Heart-Shape in the Dust, was published in 1940. While a graduate student at the University of Michigan (M.A., 1944), he studied poetry with W.H. Auden and served as a teaching fellow, which made him the university’s first Black faculty member.
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