I’m planning an American lit class, so I notice Brooks’s play with Dickinson and Whitman and Frost
Alliteration deployed exactingly. “Graves grow no green you can use”— direct, profound, asking us to hear the never-written “grief”
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Our first poem is "To The Young Who Want To Die" by the all-time great Gwendolyn Brooks, with its remarkable opening and closing. (And everything within it, too!)
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I’m planning an American lit class, so I notice Brooks’s play with Dickinson and Whitman and Frost
Alliteration deployed exactingly. “Graves grow no green you can use”— direct, profound, asking us to hear the never-written “grief”
It’s now out in paperback. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Ha...
It’s now out in paperback. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Ha...
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