Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
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“Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
They took my lover’s tallness off to war.
Left me lamenting.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“... able to
Mend measles, nag noses, blast blisters
And all day waste wordful girls
And war-boys, and all day
Say ‘Oh God!’”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“We knew how to order. Just the dash
Necessary. The length of gaiety in good taste.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Listen, listen. The step
Of iron feet again. And again wild.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“There is a little lightning in his eyes.
Iron at the mouth.
His brows ride neither too far up nor down.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)