The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks - (American Poets Project #19) (Hardcover)

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. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.

General

Imprint:	The Library of America
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Poets Project, 19
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	May 2013
Authors:	Gwendolyn Brooks
Editors:	Elizabeth Alexander
Dimensions:	200 x 117 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	174
ISBN-13:	978-1-931082-87-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-931082-87-1
Barcode:	9781931082877

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