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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday Tuesday, since I missed posting yesterday because holiday:
Book Power, Gwendolyn Brooks
BOOKS FEED AND CURE AND
CHORTLE AND COLLIDE
In all this willful world
of thud and thump and thunder
man’s relevance to books
continues to declare.
Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower,
steel, stitch, and cloud and clout,
and drumbeats in the air.
Brooks (1917-2000) was the first African-American woman to be the Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress and the first African-American period to receive a Pulitzer Prize in poetry. This was written in 1969 for National Children’s Book Week.
---L.
Subject quote from Two Sonnets, David P. Berenberg.
Book Power, Gwendolyn Brooks
BOOKS FEED AND CURE AND
CHORTLE AND COLLIDE
In all this willful world
of thud and thump and thunder
man’s relevance to books
continues to declare.
Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower,
steel, stitch, and cloud and clout,
and drumbeats in the air.
Brooks (1917-2000) was the first African-American woman to be the Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress and the first African-American period to receive a Pulitzer Prize in poetry. This was written in 1969 for National Children’s Book Week.
---L.
Subject quote from Two Sonnets, David P. Berenberg.