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GWENDOLYN BROOKS by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI

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First Line: SHE DOESN'T WEAR %COSTUME JEWELRY
Last Line: BRO, THEY BEEN CALLING THAT SISTER BY THE WRONG NAME
Subject(s): ALIENATION (SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY); BROOKS, GWENDOLYN (1917-2000); DISSENTERS; EXILES; MARGINALITY, SOCIAL;

Poem Sources:

EVERY SHUT EYE AIN'T ASLEEP: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY BY AFRICAN AMERICANS SINCE 1945. EDITED BY MICHAEL HARPER AND ANTHONY WALTON.
  HARPER, MICHAEL (ED.)HONY WALTON (EDS.)
  (1994)
 
OUTSIDERS; POEMS ABOUT REBELS, EXILES, AND RENEGADES.
  BOSSELAAR, LAURE-ANNE (ED.)
  (1999)
 
GROUND WORK; NEW AND SELECTED POEMS OF DON L. LEE (HAKI R. MADHUBUTI). FROM 1966-1996.
  MADHUBUTI, HAKI R.
  (1996)
 



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