Brooks, Gwendolyn 1977
Vintage poster of a joint reading by Gwendolyn Brooks and Etheridge Knight at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
And night is night.
– Gwendolyn Brooks, “A Sunset of the City”
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Online Interviews with Gwendolyn Brooks from “An Interview with Gwendlyn Brooks” in Artful Dodge When in Bloomington this February (1979), Brooks discussed her poetry with The Artful Dodge while driving to the Ramada Inn after a day of reading and speaking.
Of people: These
are all soft animals.
Not one is made of steel.
That
is what he thought.
He felt that they would feel.
If not next day, next Monday.
And he smiled.
– Gwendolyn Brooks, “Henry Rago”
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