#In the Mecca
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afrotumble · 6 months ago
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This was the Pulitzer Prize-winner's first new collection of poetry after a gap of nearly ten years. "I was to be a Watchful Eye; a Tuned Ear; a Super-reporter," Brooks said. "I began writing about whatever I thought I knew, whatever I experienced." What she knew and experienced in those years resulted in poetry charged with a new power and urgency. The book takes its title from a long narrative poem set in a huge decayed apartment house in Chicago's black ghetto, a building called the Mecca. A tragedy in the Mecca gives rise to Brooks' extraordinary poetic evocation of its dense personal miseries and sense of life. Nine shorter poems follow, and these too, in large part, have their source in contemporary figures and circumstances: Medgar Evers and Malcolm X, "the Blackstone Rangers gang," the astonishing prideful mural painted on a ghetto wall one summer. The universality that transcends the immediate event, and is the mark of poetic sensibility, distinguishes all the poetry here. Gwendolyn Brooks' stature as a poet who "induces almost unbearable excitement"--As Phyllis McGinley described her--is here enriched by the new dimensions her work encompasses.--Adapted from book jacket.
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angela-yuriko-smith · 1 year ago
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Celebrating 106 Years of Gwendolyn Brooks
Tomorrow's Authortunities mail out will feature American poet, author, and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks.
Tomorrow’s Authortunities mail out will feature American poet, author, and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks born 106 years ago today on June 7, 1917. She was known for her work that often celebrated and examined the personal struggles of ordinary people in her community​. Brooks was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks. Her father wanted to be a doctor but he traded that…
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ebrahimsharabash · 1 year ago
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"You are in this world to build a place for you in heaven, do not forget that"
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safi-soliman · 11 months ago
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Cats in mosques
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yearningforunity · 5 months ago
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Salvador – the capital city of the state of Bahia – has the largest Black population in Brazil and known as a Black Mecca.  
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fishfingersandscarves · 2 months ago
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1,839.9 km
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insects-in-every-hole · 7 months ago
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zegalba · 1 year ago
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Lightning striking the Clock Tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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todayinhiphophistory · 22 days ago
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Today in Hip Hop History:
Digable Planets released their second studio album Blowout Comb October 18, 1994
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realnyhiphop101 · 2 months ago
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Pete Rock & CL Smooth “Mecca and The Soul Brother” Era
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xxviviennevincentxx · 1 year ago
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MTV'S Downtown (1999)
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2001hz · 1 year ago
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Mecca DNM 'JeanTherapy' ad print in The Source magazine issue n°132 (2000)
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manga-and-stuff · 27 days ago
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Source: Fullmetal Alchemist Hagane no Renkinjutsushi 鋼の錬金術師
by Hiromu Arakawa
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Cabaret Voltaire (1981)
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columboscreens · 7 months ago
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mindofserenity · 1 year ago
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Home truly is magnificent ‎سبحان الله
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