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Gwendolyn Brooks 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
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 


Gwendolyn Brooks
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 ...
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brooks/brooks.htm 


Gwendolyn Brooks' Life and Career
Although she was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas--the first child of David and Keziah Brooks--Gwendolyn Brooks is "a Chicagoan. ...
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brooks/life.htm 


Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Gwendolyn Brooks
"The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems."
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