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GWENDOLYN BROOKS HER LIFE-Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. At the age of seven she began writing due to a life based on education. It was this that paved her way to become the first black woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize in 195o for her work with Annie Allen. Other awards she obtained are: Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, Consultant of Poetry to the National Library of Congress, and she was the only American to win the Society of Literature Award from the University of Thesselonia, Athens, Greece in 1990.
HER WORK-Gwendolyn's work focused mainly on the everyday life of ordinary people. One of the most pressing themes she uses is that there is good to be found in anyone, anything, and in any situation. |
"TO BE IN LOVE" To be in love
Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. You look at things Through his eyes. A cardinal is red. A sky is blue. Suddenly you know he knows too. He is not there but You know you are tasting together The winter, or a light spring weather. His hand to take your hand is overmuch. Too much too bear. You cannot look in his eyes Because you rpulse must not say What must not be said. When he Shuts a door- Is not there_ Your arms are water. And you are free With a ghastly freedom. You are the beautiful half Of a golden hurt. You remember and covet his mouth To touch, to whisper on. Oh when to declare Is certain Death! Oh when to apprize Is to mesmerize, To see fall down, the Column of Gold, Into the commonest ash. |
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