"Book Power", by Gwendolyn Brooks
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greatpoetryBOOK POWER
by Gwendolyn BrooksBOOKS FEED AND CURE AND
CHORTLE AND COLLIDEIn all this willful world
of thud and thump and thunder
man’s relevance to books
continues to declare.Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower,
steel, stitch, and cloud and clout,
and drumbeats in the air.