The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
(American Poets Project #19)
$39.83
- Hardcover
174 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2005
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931082877 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1931082871 |
| Author: | Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 174 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 119mm x 198mm |
| Series: | American Poets Project |
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress-the forerunner of the U.S. Poet Laureate.
Elizabeth Alexander, editor of this volume, is the author of four books of poems, including American Sublime, and the essay collection The Black Interior. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation as well as the George Kent Award, given by Gwendolyn Brooks. She is a professor at Yale University.
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