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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000 / Kansas / United States)
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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 move .. 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 sonnet-ballad
15      To Be In Love
16      to the Diaspora
17      We Real Cool
        
 

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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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  ''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 C...

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