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Children Coming Home. poetry by Brooks. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Gwendolyn Brooks: Later work and legacy. (1987), Winnie (1988), and Children Coming Home (1991). Read More. Literature Novels & Short Stories Novelists A-K. Gwendolyn Brooks. American poet and educator.
In Children Coming Home, Brooks challenges prevalent past or future by conveying the present-oriented priorities ters. She accomplishes this through the volume's title, locating each poem's temporal-spatial action as transitioning.
Jan 1, 2001 · In this collection of poems, Gwendolyn Brooks gives voice to the experiences of the many children she encountered in the urban schools of Chicago. Each poem is told from an imagined child’s point of view.
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In Children Coming Home, Brooks works with and against the category “children” by challenging ideas of her adult readers through a prefatory poem, by imagining the voices of twenty young...
This poem comes from Brooks' 1991 collection, “Children Coming Home.” After an epigraph (“Speak the truth to the people,” Mari Evans) and a poem, “After School,” which establishes setting and...
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And children coming home from school Look in at the open door; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
