A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
Author : George E. Kent
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813128009
Exquisite
Author : Suzanne Slade
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1683354729
Book Description
A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A 2021 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from early girlhood into her adult life, showcasing her desire to write poetry from a very young age. This picture-book biography explores the intersections of race, gender, and the ubiquitous poverty of the Great Depression—all with a lyrical touch worthy of the subject. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. And in 1958, she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. A bold artist who from a very young age dared to dream, Brooks will inspire young readers to create poetry from their own lives.
A Life Distilled
Author : Maria Mootry
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252060656
Book Description
These 18 critical essays place Brooks' work in a personal as well as social and cultural context and reflect in a chronological manner an appreciation of the entire range of Brooks' poetic vision. Beginning with a general assessment the essays analyze her poetry, her novel Maud Martha, and the unpublished "Songs After Sunset." ISBN 0-252-01367-0 : $27.50.
Report from Part One
Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
The author relates the events of her life to her ongoing struggle to freely express the ideas and emotions of an African-American poet
A Street in Bronzeville
Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1598533819
Book Description
Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the forerunner of the U.S. Poet Laureate. Here, in an exclusive Library of America E-Book Classic edition, is her groundbreaking first book of poems, a searing portrait of Chicago’s South Side. “I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street,” she later said. “There was my material.”
Annie Allen
Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1949
Category : African American women
ISBN :
Book Description
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : American Poets Project
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Presents more than eighty poems spanning the career of twentieth-century African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, which explore life on Chicago's south side.
Winnie
Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
A group of poems dedicated to Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela who was the first indigenous leader to hold the office of President of the Republic of South Africa.
Blacks
Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780883781050
Book Description
Presents a collection of the author's poetry and prose.
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks
Author : Alice Faye Duncan
Publisher : People Who Shaped Our World
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781454930884
Book Description
A collection of poems profiles the Chicago author who gave voice to the urban African American experience in the twentieth century.
