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Gwendolyn Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hear Kalamu ya Salaam and E. Ethelbert Miller describe why Gwendolyn Brooks is so important to poetry in America (RealPlayer Required) ... This collection includes selections of some of the best of those works, with an original introduction by Nikki Giovanni:
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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 associated with...
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Kent, George E. "A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks." Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. ... Loff, Jon N. "Gwendolyn Brooks: A Bibliography." College Language Association Journal 17 (September 1973): 21-31.
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THE GOOD MAN ... my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell ... WORKS ABOUT GWENDOLYN BROOKS; HOME;
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Chapter 10: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) ... Page Links: | Primary Works | Selected Bibliography 1980-Present | MLA Style Citation of this Web Page |
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Gwendolyn Brooks was a highly regarded, much-honored poet, with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the first black woman to hold that position—and poet laureate of ... Many of Brooks's works display a political consciousness,
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