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Michael Harper’s Images of Kin is a unique collection of poems that illustrates the great influence that both people of history and music have had over his poetry. Harper’s goal is to connect the reader to ancestors of the past to make route for a better future. In this collection Harper writes of “people known, unknown, famous and infamous—known to him personally or kin to him by virtue of his possession of history, biography and autobiography, of music and sport,� (John Brown 749).
Many of the poems in Images of Kin, suggest to you the value and appreciation that Michael Harper has of history. He has an entire book/section dedicated to history titled History is Your Own Heart Beat. Harper’s values of history are demonstrated in his poetry and shows that literature to him is a study of comparative humanity; meaning “the conscious concern with one’s inner development, which is to say the maturation, the flowering, of a vibrant interior life,� (Rowell 789).......

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