【美国人物志】格温多琳．布鲁克斯(6/11)

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        格温多林。布鲁克斯(1917-2000)，第一位获得普利策文学奖的非洲裔美国诗人。她一生中创作了大量的诗歌，出版了二十多部诗集，是全世界著名的用诗歌的语言来增强人们对美国黑人文化的了解的人。
       
        Hints:
        Gwendolyn Brooks
        Henry L. Blakely
        Nora Brooks Blakely
        Mizz Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks married Henry L. Blakely in 1939. Henry Blakely was a young writer who later published his own poetry. They lived in Chicago for the next thirty years, divorced in 1969, but re-united in 1973. They had two children, Nora Brooks Blakely and Henry Blakely.
Throughout her life, Mizz Brooks supported herself through speaking appearances, poetry readings and part time teaching in colleges. She also received money from organizations that offered grants designed to support the arts.
One of Gwendolyn Brooks most famous poems is called "We Real Cool". It is a short poem that talks about young people feeling hopeless:
We real cool. We left school. We lurk late. We strike straight. We sing sin. We thin gin. We jazz June. We die soon.1939年，格温多林.布鲁克斯嫁给了亨利.L.布莱克利，亨利.布莱克利也是一位年轻的作家，后来他也出版了他自己的诗集。他们住在芝加哥市，在以后的三十年中，他们一直居住在那。1969年他们离婚，但在1973年他们又复婚了。他们有两个孩子，分别是诺拉.布鲁克斯.布莱克利和亨利.布莱克利。在她的一生中，布鲁克斯女士通过发表演讲、朗读诗歌和兼职做教师来支撑自己，她还从那些为艺术提供赠款的组织中得到了一些钱。
格温多林.布鲁克斯最著名的一首诗是()，这是一首短诗，讲述的是一位感觉无望的年轻人：
我们真的很酷，我们
离开了学校，我们
悄悄地躲在后面，我们
打架斗殴，我们
歌唱罪过，我们
挖空陷阱，我们
到处游荡，我们
很快就要死了。