14—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, March 26, 1975
Poet laureate Brooks presents works
By LEAH ROZEN
Collegian Staff Writer
Gwendolyn Brooks has spent a large part of her 57 years
writing poetry because, to her, "Poetry is life distilled."
"That's what I decided many years ago," she said last night
at the Paul Robeson Cultural Center, "and I have found
nothing to change my opinion."
Brooks read and commented on her poems for the more
Impressions
than 300 persons who came the hear the poet laureate of
Illinois.
After reading a few poems by other authors, Brooks delved
into her own material.
Hearing Brooks read her own poetry made it more im- now since some of our highest officers have tended to
mediate to the audience, She stretched out words, swooped popularize them recently."
her voice high and low, punctuated lines with laughter and "Riots are truly an inspiration td a poet's pen," Brooks said.
made the black and white lines of the printed page come alive. The Chicago riots which followed the assassination of Martin
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After reading a poem on abortion, Brooks turned to one
about horses grazing. "Some of my little blatk friends say e,
`That ain't black, that ain't relevant,' but I don't apologize
about writing this little poem," Brooks said.
Before reading a poem about love, Brooks said, "It's all
proper," since it was dedicated to her husband.
"Of late, I have become a very bannable poet," Brooks said.
Her poem "We Real Cool" recently was banned in a Nebraska
school because of a line in which the protagonists say they „,
want to "jazz June."
— Jazz' was taken as a sexual reference," Brooks said. "I
piadn't intended p it to be a sexual reference, but I don't mind
If. •
Before reading "The Ballad of Pearl Mae Lee," a poem she
said had been Langston Hughes' favorite from among her
works, Brooks said it had some words that were "acceptable
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Luther King Jr. spurred her to write a poem about a young
white liberal, John Cabot, who is suddenly faced by crowds of
defiant young blacks.
Brooks has the man say, as he falls to the ground, "Lord,
forgive these•niggers, for they know not what they do."
"Boy Breaking Glass," a poem about the young "militants"
of the racial turbulence from recent years, was Brooks' at
tempt to :`distill some degree of their motivation."
Reading a poem she wrote for the dedication of the Picasso
statue which now rests in Chicago's Civic Center, Brooks
recited, "Does man love art, man visits art but squirms."
Brooks said she was glad the Picasso statue had been given
to Chicago, calling it a "real mind-extender."
"I'm going to close with another banned poem," Brooks told
the audience. "This one was just banned in West Virginia. It
appeared 35 years ago in my first book."
Many emminent critics have said that this poem functions
on several levels and hai many meanings. This is not true,"
she said.
"It is merely the distilled resentment my brother and I felt
at being restrained by our proper mother."
The poem, "A, Song in Vie Front Yard," includes a line
where Brooks expresses a desire to be a "bad woman" and "to
strut down the street witWnfalie-up on my face."
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Malizia elected
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Sam Mahzia )9th-business arts) Dave Robbins 7th
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Students.
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balloting he would work to
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