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DETROIT FREE PRESSWEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1980 7B Robert Hayden, talented poet IMliMfiiil By ANDREA FORD Free Press Staff Writer Robert Hayden, 66, the gentle, gifted poet from Detroit who years ago won ovtr European critics with his stunningly beautiful verse and later became recognized in this country as a major poet, will be buried Wednesday in Ann Arbor. Mr. Hayden, a former poetry consultant to the Library of Congress an honor tanta mount to being named poet laureate of England died Monday in the University of Michigan Hospital from com-plications of a blood clot in his lungs. He was a professsor of English at U-M and had lived in Ann Arbor since 1969.

The day before his death the nnot urflc hnnnrpri in a tri. iv is" bute program at the universi-; ty. He was unable to attend the ceremony because of flu. Mr. Hayden was admitted to the hospital Monday and died less than two hours later.

He was among a group of sorial Mr. Hayden, who one reporter said shouldered his honors "like an old coat not caring for (the) belated glamor but hoping it would be useful," reached the pinnacle of success late in his life. t. He was 53 before a commercial publisher agreed to print his work. That was in 1966, the same year he won the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal.

Ten years later, Mr. Hayden was still at the height of his productivity. For two years, 1976-78, he was on sabbatical from his duties at U-M and served at the Library of Congress. "My mind is working better," he said a few months before going to Washington. "As I've grown older and thought about the life I've lived, I've come to understand it.

One of the ways of relieving the pain of it, for me, is to write about it." MR. HAYDEN WAS born in 1913 at Beacon and Beaubien streets near the spot where the J.L. Hudson warehouse now stands. Shortly after his birth, his mother gave him up for adoption. As a young boy, he helped his adoptive father deliver coal-from a horse-drawn wagon in the neighborhood, the area that was known for years as Paradise Valley.

Mr. Hayden later wrote of those mornings when he would "wake and hear the cold, splintering, breaking" and "when the rooms were warm he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house." He remembered his boyhood as a time of great poverty and strBss "I remember standing in lines to get sacks of flour," he said in 1977. I hated it." BY AGE 12, Mr. Hayden was writing regularly, inspired by black vaudeville shows that featured blues singers Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters. He attended Detroit City College (now Wayne State University) and received a degree in Spanish.

He later got his master's degree from U-M, where he made a brief but impressive poetry debut under the tutelage of W.H. Auden, twice winning the prestigious Hopkins Award. He taught English at Fisk University in Nashville for 23 years before returning to Ann Arbor. One of Mr. Hayden's most recent works was an anthology of American The poet is survived by his wife, Erma; a daughter, Maia Hayden Tedla, and a grandson, Michael.

A Baha'l Faith memorial service will be held later. Graveside services will be held Wednesday at Falrview Cemetery In Ann Arbor. Robert Hayden: "His life as a teacher, as a poet and as a man enriched us all." a manton nnate nnnnron iacr month by President Carter at thp WhitP HnilCP Gov. Milliken said Tuesday Mr. Hayden's actions "sought to capture the essence of the many cultures and peoples which make up this nation.

He will be greatly missed." Harold P. Shapiro, U-M's president, said of Mr. Hayden Tuesday: His poetry helped define the landscape of human life, brightening the nooks and crannies of our existence His life as a teacher, as a poet and as a man enriched us all." THE SLIGHTLY RUMPLED, thickly bespectacled, profes- obituaries Mr. Schreiner is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; a son, Dr. Robert and four grandchildren.

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