Report from Part TwoMusings and notes about the life, the family, and travels of Gwendolyn Brooks that is a reprise of a prior book, "Report from Part One," published by Broadside Press in 1972. Brooks was the Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986. This volume includes her introductions of visiting writers during that period. |
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... daughter and carrying her from one end of the house to the other ; she was almost like a doll ; " Why don't you put that child down ? " my husband would say . ) Yet my mother's affections , we all knew , were present and clear . As daughter ...
... daughter and carrying her from one end of the house to the other ; she was almost like a doll ; " Why don't you put that child down ? " my husband would say . ) Yet my mother's affections , we all knew , were present and clear . As daughter ...
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... daughter , had been stolen , her doors splintered in the forced entry during , luckily , her absence . In October , her heating plant failed , and even though assured it would be replaced , somehow her faith in her ability to control ...
... daughter , had been stolen , her doors splintered in the forced entry during , luckily , her absence . In October , her heating plant failed , and even though assured it would be replaced , somehow her faith in her ability to control ...
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... daughter to write plays for her pupils ; performers included the young writer . Church was the repository of Black oratory and the spirituals that W.E.B. DuBois in The Gift of Black Folk called " sorrow songs . " It was the place where ...
... daughter to write plays for her pupils ; performers included the young writer . Church was the repository of Black oratory and the spirituals that W.E.B. DuBois in The Gift of Black Folk called " sorrow songs . " It was the place where ...
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