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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). | Brooks' Life and Career | On "We Real Cool" | On "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed" | On "Gay Chaps at the Bar" | An Essay on "Gay ...
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Gwendolyn Brooks' Life and Career
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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. ...
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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.''
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Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat."
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''The lariat lynch-wish I deplored./The loveliest lynchee was our Lord.''
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Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), African American poet and fiction writer. "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock," lines 59-60 (1957).
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