Selected Poems

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Selected Poems

poetry by Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks
In the Mecca
Brooks published Selected Poems in 1963, followed in 1968 by In the Mecca, half of which is a long narrative poem about people in the Mecca, a vast, fortresslike apartment building erected on the South Side of Chicago in 1891, which had long since deteriorated into a…
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Brooks published Selected Poems in 1963, followed in 1968 by In the Mecca, half of which is a long narrative poem about people in the Mecca, a vast, fortresslike apartment building erected on the South Side of Chicago in 1891, which had long since deteriorated into a…
Read More