Gwendolyn Brooks poet from United States was born in 1917, had 83 years and died in 2000. Poems were written in Modern age mainly in English language. Dominant movement is political.
Top ten poems Gwendolyn Brooks
The Mother
... Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches, ...
One Wants A Teller In A Time Like This
... One wants a teller in a time like thisOne's not a man, one's not a woman grown ...
The Crazy Woman
... I'll go out in the frosty dark ...
To Be In Love
... To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand ...
We Real Cool
... Left School. WeLurk late ...
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
... Where at night a man in bed"May never hear the plaster ...
The Good Man
... The good man.Watches our bogus roses, our rank wreath, our ...
The Independent Man
... Not a wife. You'd let her twirl you, give her a good glee ...
The Lovers of the Poor
... Who are full, Sleek, tender-clad, fit, fiftyish, a-glow, all ...
My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell
... Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt ...
