A bell hooks book titled for this poem discusses how Black men need to “radicalize their consciousness to challenge patriarchy.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem whose pool-playing characters “lurk late” and “sing sin” at The Golden Shovel.
ANSWER: “We Real Cool”
[10e] “We Real Cool” was written by this Black poet from Chicago, who included the poem in her collection The Bean Eaters.
ANSWER: Gwendolyn Brooks
[10h] This contemporary poet spelled out most of the text of “We Real Cool” in the line-ending words of her poem “An American Sunrise.” In another poem, this former Poet Laureate wrote about animals who were “bodies of sand” and “maps drawn of blood.”
ANSWER: Joy Harjo [or Joy Harjo-Sapulpa] (The poem is “She Had Some Horses.”)
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