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POLISHERS OF BRASS by TOI DERRICOTTE

Poet Analysis

First Line: I AM THINKING OF THE MEN WHO POLISH BRASS IN GEORGETOWN
Last Line: WHERE THEY STARTED, IT HAS ALREADY TARNISHED, AND THE MUST BEGIN AGAIN
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS;

Poem Sources:

ADAM OF LIFE: BLACK WOMEN IN PRAISE OF BLACK MEN; POEMS.
  MADGETT, NAOMI LONG (ED.)
  (1992)
 
CAPTIVITY.
  DERRICOTTE, TOI
  (1989)
 



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