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By Margot Harper Banks

This publication examines how Gwendolyn Brooks, a self-proclaimed nonreligious individual, advocates adherence to Christian beliefs via spiritual allusions in her poetry. The dialogue integrates Brooks’ phrases, biographical info, statement via different students, scriptural references, and doctrinal tenets. It identifies biblical figures and occasions and highlights Brooks’ powerful use of the sermon style, and her show parallels among Christianity and Democracy. The paintings opens with a biographical bankruptcy and Brooks’ reviews on faith, by means of analyses of her lengthy poems, and greater than thirty of her brief ones. An illuminating interview with Nora Brooks Blakely approximately Brooks’ non secular heritage and philosophy is included.

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