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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... wrote music to which I wrote the words , made fudge , made cocoa and prune whip and apricot pie , drew tidy cows and trees and expert houses with chimneys and chimney smoke , who helped her children with arithmetic homework . Home meant ...
... wrote music to which I wrote the words , made fudge , made cocoa and prune whip and apricot pie , drew tidy cows and trees and expert houses with chimneys and chimney smoke , who helped her children with arithmetic homework . Home meant ...
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... wrote " The Preacher : Ruminates Behind The Sermon . " That poem has been banned in a number of places . MOVIES . A truly horrible thing was that I grew up to womanhood and went through early womanhood believing that the glittering ...
... wrote " The Preacher : Ruminates Behind The Sermon . " That poem has been banned in a number of places . MOVIES . A truly horrible thing was that I grew up to womanhood and went through early womanhood believing that the glittering ...
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... wrote music , and David Anderson Brooks , son of a run- away slave , a janitor with " rich Artistic Abilities " who had spent a year at Fisk University in Nashville . After five weeks she and her mother returned to Chicago . Sixteen ...
... wrote music , and David Anderson Brooks , son of a run- away slave , a janitor with " rich Artistic Abilities " who had spent a year at Fisk University in Nashville . After five weeks she and her mother returned to Chicago . Sixteen ...
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