THE ESSENTIAL GWENDOLYN BROOKS Politicians the term used to diagnose

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THE ESSENTIAL GWENDOLYN BROOKS Politicians the term used to diagnose"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