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We Real Cool
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
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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Biography
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 the State of Illinois. Many of Brooks's works display a political consciousness, especially those from the 1960s and later, with several of her poems reflecting the civil . . .
Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Gender & Sexuality, Youth, Race & Ethnicity, Social Commentaries, Living
Poetic Terms Assonance, Alliteration, Consonance, Couplet
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