 And it was, again, this great triumph. No one had ever done this before. This is the first African-American poet to ever have a published work ever. The publisher, actually, of the book actually went on to say that her work consisted of one of the greatest instances of pure unassisted genius the world had ever seen. And he pointed out that she was, in fact, a native of Africa and had not left it until she was nearly eight years old with zero training in English,