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  2. We Real Cool - Wikipedia

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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. It is cited as "one of the most celebrated examples of jazz poetry". [1] [2] [3]

  3. We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity - Wikipedia

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    We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity is a 2004 book about masculinity by feminist author bell hooks. It collects ten essays on black men. The title alludes to Gwendolyn Brooks' 1959 poem "We Real Cool". The essays are intended to provide cultural criticism and solutions to the problems she identifies. [1]

  4. Golden shovel - Wikipedia

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    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").

  5. How to Write a Real Love Poem (Without Clichés or Bad ... - AOL

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    The poem encourages us not to miss the world’s deliciousness: “Quiet’s cool flesh—/let’s sniff and eat it./There are ways/to make of the moment/a topiary/so the pleasure’s in/walking ...

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    LL Cool J is one of the people credited with originating the popular term G.O.A.T., or "greatest of all time," with the release of his 2000 album of the same name.

  7. 1960 in poetry - Wikipedia

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    John Ashbery, The Poems [11] W. H. Auden, Homage to Clio [11] Paul Blackburn, Brooklyn Manhattan Transit: A Bouquet for Flatbush; Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters, [11] including "We Real Cool" Witter Bynner, New Poems [11] Gregory Corso, The Happy Birthday of Death [11] Louis Coxe, The Middle Passage [11] E. E. Cummings, Collected Poems

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    $220 at Amazon. See at Le Creuset. 2024 F&W Best New Chef Leina Horii of Kisser in Nashville thinks that a large, seasoned cast iron skillet makes for a fantastic (albeit, heavy) holiday gift ...

  9. Chester Himes - Wikipedia

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    Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. [1]