Kitchenette Building (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, Chicago, Inner cities or inner-city life, Apartment houses, Colors
The efficiency apartment described in “Kitchenette Building,” the first poem in A Street in Bronzeville, recalls the apartments in which Brooks and her husband lived prior to the early 1950's, when they purchased a house. Bronzeville, so named by the Chicago Defender, was a black ghetto consisting of forty square blocks on the South Side of the city. With its cross-section of people and lifestyles, Bronzeville provided Brooks with a wealth of subject material.
Written in an irregular rhyme scheme that moves toward pentameter, “Kitchenette Building” bears...
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