Art Np2

More info on Robert Hayden: http://iwannalearntowrite.blogspot.com/2010/11/detroit-diaspora-writers-from-detroit.html Analysis by Kerry Michael Wood: http://www.helium.com/items/1145833-analysis-of-robert-haydens-those-winter-sundays Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Full Moon Painting by James Denmark http://www.gallerychuma.com/james_denmark.htm ------------------------------------------------------ The poet Robert Hayden was born in Detroit in 1913 and lived in a predominately African American neighborhood near downtown known as Paradise Valley or the black bottom. At the time of Hayden's birth Detroit was very segregated. Most of the people who lived in Paradise Valley had migrated north from the southern states to work in the auto industry. Hayden attended Detroit City College (renamed Wayne State University) and the University of Michigan. He studied with the poet W. H. Auden, researched black folk culture for the Federal Writers' Project, and spent twenty-three years teaching poetry at Fisk. Before his death in 1980 he was the Poet Laureate for the United States from 1976-1978 . Biographical information obtained by Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hayden Paradise Valley: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index....