Literature: The Power of Language
- ISBN-10
- 0155510932
- ISBN-13
- 9780155510937
- Series
- Literature
- Category
- Literature
- Pages
- 1488
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace College Publishers
- Author
- Thomas McLaughlin
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For “ The Death of Marilyn Monroe " from The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds . Copyright 1983 by Sharon Olds . For “ Dream Variation ” from Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes . Copyright 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf ...
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