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quoted her as saying, "I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street.[...] I lived in a small second-floor apartment at the corner, and I could look first on one side and then the other.There was my material" (Watkins).Consider Brooks's last sentence: "There was my material."Such a simple sentence.Such complex resonances.How may we read Brooks's use of the term material?As the ideas that she wrote about?As the physical and spatial matter in her apartment and on the streets of Bronzeville (South Chicago)?As evidence (as in law) important enough to influence the outcome of a case ... or a life ... or a poem?As the language or terms that make up her poetry?As the competing ideologies that informed her life?Or perhaps the term material signifies a combination of all of the above?If we take this combination
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