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Selected Poems (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed)
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Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and
celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer
Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling
collection showcases Brooks's technical mastery, her warm humanity,
and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.
This edition also includes a special PS section with insights,
interviews, and more--including a short piece by Nikki Giovanni
entitled Remembering Gwen. By 1963 the civil rights movement was in
full swing across the United States, and more and more African
American writers were increasingly outspoken in attacking American
racism and insisting on full political, economic, and social
equality for all. In that memorable year of the March on
Washington, Harper & Row released Brooks's Selected Poems,
which incorporated poems from her first three collections, as well
as a selection of new poems. This edition of Selected Poems
includes A Street in Bronzeville, Brooks's first published volume
of poetry for which she became nationally known and which led to
successive Guggenheim fellowships; Annie Allen, published one year
before she became the first African American author to win the
Pulitzer Prize in any category; and The Bean Eaters, her fifth
publication which expanded her focus from studies of the lives of
mainly poor urban black Americans to the heroism of early civil
rights workers and events of particular outrage--including the 1955
Emmett Till lynching and the 1957 school desegregation crisis in
Little Rock, Arkansas.
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