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Gwendolyn Brooks - poems - Poem Hunter
Classic Poetry Series Gwendolyn Brooks - poems - Publication Date: 2012 - The World's Poetry ArchiveGwendolyn Brooks (7 June 1917 3 December 2000) Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an African-American poet. She was appointedPoet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to theLibrary of Congress in 1985. <b>Biography</b> Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, thefirst child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah Wims. Her mother was a formerschool teacher who had chosen that field because she could not afford to attendmedical school. (Family lore held that her paternal grandfather had escapedslavery to join Union forces during the American Civil War.) When Brooks was sixweeks old, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois during the Great Migration; fromthen on, Chicago was her hometown. She went by the nickname "Gwendie"among her close friends.
Came down and away, and she could look at her child, At her baby-child, She could think only of blood. Surely her baby's cheek Had disappeared, and in its place, surely, Hung a heaviness, a lengthening red, a red that had no end. She shook her had. It was not true, of course. It was not true at all. The Child's face was as always, the
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