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Hardback. Condition: Good. 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. …

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Hardback. Condition: Good. 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. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Moon, Jan; Brooks, William D. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Poems (Everyman's Poetry) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Softcover. Condition: Bon. Traces d'usure sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Signs of wear on the cover. Stains on the edge. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Moon, Jan; Brooks, William D. (illustrator).

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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Proposed Asylum Harbour and Naval Station at Redcar, on the Coast of Yorkshire . to Be Called Port William Projected by W. A. Brooks, Etc. [A Report . with Correspondence and Other Documents.] This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Feb, 1935, pp. 217-240, Profusely Illus with BW Photos & 8 Color Painting Plts by Allan Brooks, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG (Nice Color Plates of Owls. Allan Brooks (illustrator).

Condition: good. This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.