166:, Plumpp was raised by his maternal grandparents, Mattie and Victor Emmanuel Plumpp, on the cotton plantation where they worked as sharecroppers. Working with them in the fields, Plumpp and his brother did not attend school until they were eight or nine years old and could walk the 10 miles to the school. At the age of 16, Plumpp converted to
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at a time when I became intently aware that I am really a Black peasant, a child of the
Mississippi soil, baptized in a Saturday-afternoon lake and nourished to a conversionary experience whereby Christ showed me a sign that I had been saved. I was rural. Country folk knew hot dust broiling feet in
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of the 1960s. I was looking for a way to culturally position concepts of beauty and art in the two cultural/literary movements. I wrote
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summers. Somehow I learned to read. I left the South for the North, but I have not lost those southern roots."
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poet, educator, editor, and critic. He has written numerous books, including
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