Gwendolyn E. Brooks: A Poetic Play
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B018I3MCWY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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It would have been easier for her to just write me off and say nothing or a perfunctory “nice”. She hung with us. I worked about 15 of my favorite Gwendolyn Brooks poems into the play. I just go with it. And she smiled at me and I was thrilled.She listened to my every word and to every student’s every word. After all, she was quite a celebrity.She attained all four of the biggest awards in poetry. No explanations. She didn’t just drift away and let us go on and on. All the students loved her and appreciated her presence with us. I remember reading some of my own attempts at poetry to our