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Gwendolyn Brooks
(1917 - 2000)

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Although she was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas--the first child of David and Keziah Brooks--Gwendolyn Brooks is "a Chicagoan." The family moved to Chicago shortly after her birth, and despite her extensive travels and periods in some of the major universities of the country, she has remained .. .. more >>

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1		A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother burns bacon
2		A Sunset of the City
3		Garbageman: The Man With The Orderly Mind
4		Kitchenette Building
5		My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell
6		Sadie and Maud
7		Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward
8		The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
9		The Bean Eaters
10		The Crazy Woman
11		The Good Man
12		The Independent Man
13		The Lovers of the Poor
14		The Mother
15		the sonnet-ballad
16		To Be In Love
17		to the Diaspora
18		We Real Cool

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"They had never had one in the house before.
The strangeness of it all. Like unleashing
A lion, really. Poised
To pounce. A puma. A panther. A black
Bear."
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat."

"The lariat lynch-wish I deplored./The loveliest lynchee was our Lord."
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), African American poet and fiction writer. "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock," lines 59-60 (1957). The Chicago Defender was an African American newspaper; the "man" referred to is a reporter. Racially-segregated Little Rock, Arkansas was in turmoil over the issue of integration.

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Raj Sekhar (10/3/2007 2:13:00 AM)
wow. ithink u r real as nature.

Vikram Aarella - The Poem Shooter (5/18/2006 1:26:00 PM)
Gwendolyn Brooks has written some very nice poems.

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Gwendolyn Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After a short battle with cancer, Gwendolyn Brooks died on Sunday, December 3, 2000, aged 83, at her Southside Chicago home. She died with "pen in hand," ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks

Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Gwendolyn Brooks
"The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems."
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/165

A Gwendolyn Brooks Page
You've missed a picture of Ms. Brooks. GWENDOLYN BROOKS Page. CONTENTS and POETRY. CIRCLE LITERATURE PAGES. Maya Angelou · Lucille Clifton ...
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/brooks/brooks.html

Biography & Bibliography
How does one begin to convey the influence Gwendolyn Brooks has had on ... I was born two years after Gwendolyn Brooks, as the first Black writer ever, ...
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/brooks/brooks-biobib.html

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