Selected Poems (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Softcover

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060882964 ISBN 13: 9780060882969

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

[ Selected Poems By ( Author ) Jul-2006 Paperback

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Review:

"More than any other nationally acclaimed writer, Brooks has remained in touch with the community she writes about."--Washington Post

"Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation."--Robert F. Kiernan

"From her poet's craft bursts a whole gallery of wholly alive persons...Many a novelist cannot do so well in ten times the space."--Christian Science Monitor

"She is a very good poet, the only superlative I dare use in our time of misusage; compared...to the best of modern poets, she ranks high."--Harvey Curtis Webster

"When Miss Brooks...writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement."--New York Times

"Miss Brooks has a very fine talent...a faculty which is becoming rare in contemporary poetry: an interest not merely in her own responses, but in other people as well."--Paul Engle

About the Author:

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Annie Allen and one of the most celebrated Black poets. She also served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress--the first Black woman to hold that position. She was the poet laureate for the state of Illinois for over thirty years, a National Women's Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include We Are Shining, Bronzeville Boys and Girls, A Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Maud Martha. You can find out more about her at www.gwendolynbrooks.net.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060882964
• ISBN 13: 9780060882969
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176