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We Real Cool" is a poem written in 1959 by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry. The poem has been featured on broadsides , re-printed in literature textbooks and is widely studied in literature classes.
A golden shovel is a poetic form in which the last word of each line forms a second, pre-existing poem (or section thereof), to which the poet is paying homage.. It was created by Terrance Hayes, whose poem "Golden Shovel" (from his 2010 collection Lighthead) [1] is based on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" (which begins with an epigraph that includes the phrase "Golden Shovel").
We Real Cool was received with mixed reviews upon initial release. Sarah Gold of Publishers Weekly commented that hooks was "a writer of extraordinary skill"., but one who "pads out her insights with lengthy quotations from many sources, which thin but don't fully dilute her revolutionary message of love."
Many of the songs on the album deal with sexual politics. In "Repetition", a David Bowie cover, domestic violence is explored ("I guess the bruises won't show/If she wears long sleeves"), and the possessiveness underlying an open relationship is pilloried in "We're So Cool" ("you must admit/I'm prepared to share/At off-peak times").
We need, instead, the moment Douglass strikes back at Mr. Covey; Du Bois on the color line; “We real cool” and “We wear the mask;” a Renaissance in Harlem; the Invisible Man in his ...
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We finally—finally—made it to the end of the year. And though the music releases have gone from summer’s deluge to a steady trickle, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some great new songs ...
The plays chosen were Gwendolyn Brooks's We Real Cool and Douglas Turner Ward's Happy Ending. Jerry Tallmer, reviewer for the New York Post, happened to attend this showcase and gave it a glowing review. [2] This inspired Hooks to produce Happy Ending and Ward's Day of Absence as a double bill presented by Robert Hooks Productions.