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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.
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."
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").
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Attitude, behavior, appearance, or style which is generally admired "Coolness" redirects here. For the reciprocal of temperature, see thermodynamic beta. Look up cool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coolness, or being cool, is the aesthetic quality of something (such as attitude ...
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), [3] is an American rapper and actor. [4] He is one of the earliest rappers to achieve commercial success, alongside fellow new school hip hop acts Beastie Boys and Run-DMC .
"Real Cool World" is a song from the soundtrack of the American 1992 animated black comedy fantasy film Cool World. It is performed by British singer-songwriter David Bowie, and was released on 10 August 1992, representing his first new solo material since the dissolution of the band Tin Machine.
"Cool" is a mid-tempo love song featuring a synth-pop and new wave production. [9] The song is composed in D major. [10] It is written in common time, it moves at a moderate tempo of 112 beats per minute, and it has a vocal range from the low note of F♯ 3 to the high note of C♯ 5. [10]