Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project 19) by Gwendolyn Brooks

Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)

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Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project 19) by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)

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Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)

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Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize--now in one collectible volume

"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African-American cultural tradition, a poetry that registered the life of the streets and the upheavals of the 20th century. Starting with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks traces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts.

"Her formal range," writes editor Elizabeth Alexander, "is most impressive, as she experiments with sonnets, ballads, spirituals, blues, full and off-rhymes. She is nothing short of a technical virtuoso." That technical virtuosity was matched by a restless curiosity about the life around her in all its explosive variety. By turns compassionate, angry, satiric, and psychologically penetrating, Gwendolyn Brooks' poetry retains its power to move and surprise.

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Book Details
Publisher:
Library of America
ISBN:
9781931082877
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
174
Authors:
Gwendolyn Brooks
Published Date:
2013-05-01
Language:
English
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About Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) was born in Topeka, Kansas, and raised in Chicago. In 1950 she became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, awarded for Annie Allen (Harper, 1949). Her debut, A Street in Bronzeville (Harper, 1945), drew early recognition. Her poem We Real Cool is among the most widely anthologized in American literature. From 1968 she mentored younger Black poets connected to the Black Arts Movement. She served as Poet Laureate of Illinois from 1968 until her death and as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.

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