Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” from Selected Poems. Copyright © 1963 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Source: Poetry (September 1959).
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Poet Gwendolyn Brooks 1917–2000
Subjects Gender & Sexuality, Youth, Race & Ethnicity, Social Commentaries, Living
Poetic Terms Assonance, Alliteration, Consonance, Couplet