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Tag: Expression

Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry

Gwendolyn Brooks – Boy Breaking Glass

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 Vanessa Able

Gwendolyn Brooks' Boy Breaking Glass looks at the creative imperative and the drive towards expression in a boy with curtailed options. Dedicated to the writer Marc Crawford who asked Brooks to write a poem about inequality, the images she uses are detractive and dissonant - the hole in the glass filled with the contrasting black and white objects.

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