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07-25-2008, 10:54 PM

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Yes! Thanx for your amazing commentary MS KIM - You know I read the BlackStone Rangers and was just utterly amazed by Brooks' first stanza:

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There they are.
Thirty at the corner.
Black, raw, ready.
Sores in the city
that do not want to heal.

That really describes her poetry as well - "Black, raw, ready, real, etc..." And her poetry was always a testimony of sorts as to what was going on in her streets! An amazing Artiste is Ms Brooks and I was ecstatic to put together this biography. Glad you like

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