We Real Cool

Author : Aeron Charline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 6138935225

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "We Real Cool" is a poem written in 1959 by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry.It consists of four verses of two rhyming lines each. The last word in most lines is "we." The next line describes something that "we" do, such as play pool or drop out of school. Brooks has said that the "we"'s are meant to be said softly, as though the protagonists in the poem are questioning the validity of their existence. The poem has been featured on broadsides, and is widely studied in literature classes and re-printed in literature textbooks. It also contains references to the Seven Deadly Sins.

Author : Bell Hooks
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415969271

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We Real Cool by Bell Hooks Pdf

Discusses what black males fear most, their longing for intimacy, the pitfalls of patriarchy, and the destruction of oppression through redemption and love.

Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : African American men
ISBN : OCLC:70112544

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We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks Pdf

Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0060882964

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Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks Pdf

The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.

Author : Terrance Hayes
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781682260951

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The Golden Shovel Anthology by Terrance Hayes Pdf

“The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.

Author : Dominique Morisseau
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573706813

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Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau Pdf

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Author : Ellis Cose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780743436946

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The Envy of the World by Ellis Cose Pdf

With an eloquence and compassion reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a frank and realistic examination of the daunting challenges facing black men in twenty-first-century America and offers a way out of the cycle of defeatism and despair that wreaks havoc on America's black communities. Black men have never had more opportunity for success than they do today. Yet, as Ellis Cose bluntly puts it, "We are watching the largest group of black males in history stumbling through life with a ball and chain wrapped around their legs. If brought together in one incorporated region, the population of black males behind bars would instantly become the twelfth largest urban area in America." Add to that the ravages of AIDS, murder, poverty, and illiteracy, the raging anger between many black men and women, and the widening gap separating the black elite from the so-called underclass, and you have a prescription for a paralyzing pessimism. But even as he acknowledges the systemic obstacles that confront black men of all social strata, Ellis Cose refuses to accept them as reasons for giving up or giving in. In powerful and stirring prose, Cose rails against the historical worldview that has categorized academic achievement as a source of shame instead of pride in many black communities; he also outlines steps black males can take to enhance their odds for success. With insightful anecdotes about a broad range of black men -- from Franklin Raines, the first black man to run a Fortune 500 company, to unlettered ex-prisoners -- Cose documents the amazing journey the black race has made, and contemplates the challenges ahead. Both a warning of the vast social tragedy that is wasted black potential and a vital call to arms that can enable black men to reclaim their destiny, The Envy of the World is an honest and important book for anyone concerned about the future of America.

Author : Gwendolyn 1917- Brooks
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014197864

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The Bean Eaters; by Gwendolyn 1917- Brooks Pdf

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Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781598533811

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A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks Pdf

Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the forerunner of the U.S. Poet Laureate. Here, in an exclusive Library of America E-Book Classic edition, is her groundbreaking first book of poems, a searing portrait of Chicago’s South Side. “I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street,” she later said. “There was my material.”

Author : Suzanne Slade
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683354727

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Exquisite by Suzanne Slade Pdf

A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A 2021 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from early girlhood into her adult life, showcasing her desire to write poetry from a very young age. This picture-book biography explores the intersections of race, gender, and the ubiquitous poverty of the Great Depression—all with a lyrical touch worthy of the subject. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. And in 1958, she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. A bold artist who from a very young age dared to dream, Brooks will inspire young readers to create poetry from their own lives.

Author : Terrance Hayes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101222881

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Lighthead by Terrance Hayes Pdf

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.

Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1578065755

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Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks by Gwendolyn Brooks Pdf

A collection of interviews which help chronicle the life and career of African-American author Gwendolyn Brooks.

Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781598533248

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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks by Gwendolyn Brooks Pdf

"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African-American cultural tradition, a poetry that registered the life of the streets and the upheavals of the 20th century. Starting with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks traces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts. "Her formal range," writes editor Elizabeth Alexander, "is most impressive, as she experiments with sonnets, ballads, spirituals, blues, full and off-rhymes. She is nothing short of a technical virtuoso." That technical virtuosity was matched by a restless curiosity about the life around her in all its explosive variety. By turns compassionate, angry, satiric, and psychologically penetrating, Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry retains its power to move and surprise. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : African American families
ISBN : UOM:39015020708916

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In the Mecca by Gwendolyn Brooks Pdf

This was the Pulitzer Prize-winner's first new collection of poetry after a gap of nearly ten years. "I was to be a Watchful Eye; a Tuned Ear; a Super-reporter," Brooks said. "I began writing about whatever I thought I knew, whatever I experienced." What she knew and experienced in those years resulted in poetry charged with a new power and urgency. The book takes its title from a long narrative poem set in a huge decayed apartment house in Chicago's black ghetto, a building called the Mecca. A tragedy in the Mecca gives rise to Brooks' extraordinary poetic evocation of its dense personal miseries and sense of life. Nine shorter poems follow, and these too, in large part, have their source in contemporary figures and circumstances: Medgar Evers and Malcolm X, "the Blackstone Rangers gang," the astonishing prideful mural painted on a ghetto wall one summer. The universality that transcends the immediate event, and is the mark of poetic sensibility, distinguishes all the poetry here. Gwendolyn Brooks' stature as a poet who "induces almost unbearable excitement"--As Phyllis McGinley described her--is here enriched by the new dimensions her work encompasses.--Adapted from book jacket.

Author : Chester Himes
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307803276

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The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes Pdf

The book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). • Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications—like Sonny, found standing over the body, high on hash, with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks; a gang called the Moslems; a disappearing suspect; and the fact that Coffin Ed’s daughter is up to her pretty little neck in the whole explosive business.