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Raging Toward Heaven

WHAT DO ANY OF US have to pass on, really? What will be left of us in the end? Major Jackson thinks hard and playfully about those questions in his poem “My Children’s Inheritance.” His answer takes the form of an inventory, a list, but there are no items of property

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