53: The Colossus of New York, 2003, by Colson Whitehead (1969–)
2003. The first I read
By Whitehead—such a gifted man.*
So I make sure I find the bread
To buy his new ones when I can.
His sentences just dazzle me—
He breaks the rules—creates some new—
Oh, he eschews conformity
And blazes trails toward the true.
I have not read quite everything
That he has published—well, not yet—
But I will do so—his lines sing—
Before my sun of life has set.
*His most recent novel, The
Underground Railroad, 2016, won both the National Book Award for Fiction
and the Pulitzer Prize.
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