Gwendolyn Brooks

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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    This ripe rebuke, this burgeoning affluence
    Mocks me and mocks the desert of my bed.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    And a man of tan engages
    For the springtime of her pride,
    Eats the green by easy stages,
    Nibbles at the root beneath
    With intimidating teeth.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Oh Squalor! This sick four-story hulk, this fibre
    With fissures everywhere!
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    One wants a Teller in a time like this.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Each to his grief, each to
    his loneliness and fidgety revenge.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)