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Brooks, Gwendolyn The Bean Eaters

	On-Line Text
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Aging, Ordinary Life, Poverty
Summary	This poem recounts how an elderly couple maintain their existence. Although they "eat beans mostly" and "dinner is a casual affair," dining is accompanied by rich and flavorful memories of the past.
Source	The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher	Harper & Row
Edition	1971
Place Published	New York
Alternate Source	On Doctoring
Alternate Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Alternate Edition	1995, 2001
Alternate Editors	Richard Reynolds & John Stone
Place Published	New York
Miscellaneous	First published: 1960
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93
Last Revised	03/05/02