After hearing Gwendolyn Brooks
read her poetry in person aloud once in her 72nd year of life, I
learned to listen for her voice as I read her poems. Blacks contains a large
selection of her work from 1945-1971, poems vividly depicting particular black
people with lots of interesting, individual characters in particular settings doing particular things characteristic of themselves . . . like word video portraits. I
own this volume and return to it now and then . . . always glad to spend a
little time with a former Poet Laureate of my home state of Illinois. Gwendolyn Brooks was
an admirable woman of words and remains so beyond her lifetime thanks to her poetry.
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