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The Sweet Flypaper of Life

by Langston Hughes · 1955

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Photos by DeCarava, poetry by Hughes, set in a Harlem neighborhood, told from a woman's point of view as she looks through her apartment window.

Themes
art
Setting
New YorkNew York State
Audience
adult
Form
poetry

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