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_ Or does it explode?_** ** These poets are some of America's pithiest great philosophers.
TAKING QUESTIONS This week, Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, author of "Or Does It Explode?: Black Harlem in the Great Depression," will answer readers' questions about Harlem during the Great Depression.
The hall goes completely quiet; the heavyset, middle-aged Smith switches from bare-fisted rhetoric to the ambiguity – half defeatism, half defiance – of Hughes' verse: "What happens to a dream deferred?/... Maybe it just sags/Like a heavy load/Or does it explode?" But Smith rushes too quickly through the words and the moment is gone.
She took her title from the Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem": "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?/ Or fester like a sore –/ And then run?/ Maybe it just sags/ like a heavy load./ Or does it explode?" In the hands of this excellent company, this "quintessential civil rights drama" is poetry in motion.
Or does it explode?
"Or does it explode?" -- Langston Hughes.
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