Gwendolyn Brooks reads We Real Cool
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2013
- We Real Cool
by GWENDOLYN BROOKS
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool" from Selected Poems. Copyright © 1963 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Source: Poetry (September 1959).
Original Recording: www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/pr...
Copyright disclaimer. I do not own this recording nor the image featured in the video. All rights belong to it's rightful owner/owner's estate. No copyright infringement intended. For educational purposes only.
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I love how in the intro she talks about how she wishes people knew her other poems, and then at the end she says she’s gonna read 3 more, but the video cuts off before she does.
Yeah, it's pretty ironic
This is my favorite poem ever! Simple yet compelling. It helped guide my entire life. Im 41 as of yr24 Thank you Gwendolyn Brooks❤❤❤
When I was in high school I got to hear Ms. Brooks recite this
She came to my high school too. Sweet awesome lady.
@@dymndwolfprime537 Ya'll are so freaking lucky. Damn, that must have been awesome.
Jealous!!!! You lucky duck. That must have been quite an honor!
WOW! The way she syncopates it is AMAZING! Like a jazz verse.
I know Miss Brooks since I was a little boy at Jenner Elementary in the 90s and she was an amazing woman!!!!! Rest In Peace Gwendolyn Brooks!!!!!
FYI This recording of "We Real Cool" was made on May 3, 1983, as part of the Academy of American Poets reading series, held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
I memorized this poem for a school project when I was 12. I'm now 32 and I still can recite this poem. Only after watching this video is my mind blown.
Ah! The way she reads it, with the stresses in places I didn’t expect it, is VERY Cool!! ❤😀
June 7: Happy birthday Ms Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet, first African American awarded a Pulitzer Prize, 1949 (1917-2000) Thank you and God bless. RIP...thanks fot the post. blessings
So short yet so powerful!!!
Excellent to have this still available. Who knew it was banned before!!! LOL She IS Real Cool.
That jazz stuff is evil I tell ya!
I was once one of those kids at the pool hall, now I see them and wonder. This poem is relatable on all levels. Very nice!
Ah, the inimitable Ms. Brooks. She real cool.
Beautiful.
Thank you Gwendolyn, very cool!
Thanks mick.
gwendolyn Brooks poem was beautiful
One my favourite poems.
I liked this poem and the way she spoke as she read it
Southside With You brought me here 😍🙌🏾👑
Thank you for including a link to your source.
The poem itself starts at 1:46
She's wonderful =>
this poem caught my attention because it was very deep.
poem swings and she sang it
love this poem it is very deep.
how is it very deep
This poem made me think a lot about the things young people do while being in high school and how they drop out
wow very nice peom by this lady,i want to be like her but withought the drinking and smoking
The poem was very interesting
this Poem Is Real cool
Hey! This must be deep. -Gill Scott
💜💫💥
A beautiful poem
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Such a beautiful poem! Could anybody write down the speech please? I'm Italian and there are some words I can't understand, thank you very much!
+OfficialJoe Jefferson
thank you very much!
So deep
We jazz june we die soon
Interesting how Jazz apparently used to be a reference to jizz similarly to how rocking meant f*cking & how the word funk probably evolved somehow from f*ck. All music comes from the hornies.
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Thank you for this recording, Mr. Reese. Do you know when and where this reading took place?
From the Poets.org recording: May 03, 1983 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive
whos from is 278?
It's cool to be cool.. just not others use your cool .
I , too, am Afrika.
Please help me! I need to get back to my home!
1:50
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School in June?
As a southern hemisphere person I say, yes
When I was in HS we didn't get out for summer till mid to late June, depending on how many snow days we had. That's Massachusetts.
But actually, they skip school so it's a moot point. They are listening to jazz, which was the cool radical music of the day. In Germany under Hitler you could land in the concentration camp if you were caught listening to jazz.
Hi, thanks for putting this video up. If you are going to list the poem, please put it in the order that the author intended. Line breaks and prosody are such important attributes to this poem. Please do not do it a disservice.
I actually did put the text as it was originally written. The coded text will not allow for the exact line breaks.
Can people actually interpret what she is saying????
This poem is not real cool
ok
I hate this poem
Luxe Honey fuck u
We don’t care
June 7: Happy birthday Ms Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet, first African American awarded a Pulitzer Prize, 1949 (1917-2000) Thank you and God bless. RIP...thanks fot the post. blessings