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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks's original. An array of writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates, have written poems for this...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her poetry took inspiration from the complex portraits of black American life she observed growing up on Chicago's South Side, a world of kitchenette apartments and vibrant streets. From the desk in her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"This book highlights Brooks' use of the sermon genre, and her parallels between Christianity and Democracy. The work opens with a biographical chapter and Brooks' comments on religion, followed by analyses of her long poems, and more than thirty of her short ones. An interview with Nora Brooks Blakely about Brooks' religious background and philosophy is included"--Provided by publisher.
12) Gwendolyn Brooks
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Presents biographical information along with critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas that appear in the author's works.
14) Gwendolyn Brooks
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 and whose poems reflect the experiences of African Americans.
Language
English
Description
"Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after. Responding...
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