Book Power (1969) von Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) schrieb dieses Gedicht anlässlich der National Children’s Book Week im Jahre 1969. Sie und zwei andere zählen zu den einzigen drei afro-amerikanischen Schriftsteller*innen, die je den Pulitzer Preis gewinnen konnten:

BOOK POWER
by Gwendolyn Brooks

BOOKS FEED AND CURE AND
CHORTLE AND COLLIDE

In 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.

Verstecke vor einer/m BibliothekarIn nie …

… was du nicht weißt.

„And never ever tried to hide how much you don’t know to the librarian. Tell the librarian what you ar trying find out, what your mission is, what you need so.“

Historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough discusses his relationship with libraries and librarians throughout his career, including his first visits to the library as a youngster.