In the Mecca

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Imprint: Harper & Row
Poetry, Hardcover, 55 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060105372

Description of In the Mecca


In The Mecca (1968), a long poem about a mother searching for her lost child in a Chicago apartment building. In The Mecca was nominated for the National Book Award for poetry.
Gwendolyn Brooks

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