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We Real Cool: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks

A portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks, an African-American poet whose imagination, conscience and passion for words made her the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.

Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet whose imagination, conscience and passion for words made her the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950. Narrated by her daughter Nora Brooks Blakely, this is a portrait of her life through the voices of friends and fellow poets - including Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti and Sharon Olds.

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