"Come, help flatten a raindrop"
Brooks, Knight, Brock-Broido, Kaufman, Valentine
Gwendolyn Brooks:
Etheridge Knight:
Lucie Brock-Broido:
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Bob Kaufman:
Jean Valentine:
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Just read this Sharpener on a lunch break. I'm headed back to work ,wobbly now from the physical impact of these 5 poems. The epic stories in the Knight and Brock-Broido! Kaufman's virtuoso Beatnik opera! Valentine's photograph, and the awesome resistance in Brook's battlecry. An amazing post!