The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project #19)

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project #19)Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prizenow 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 Chicagos South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African American cultural tradition, a

Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post

the 2023 Pen/Bingham Prize

while she worked the crime beat as a journalist

No matter which way they turn

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and Everything Everywhere All at Once

And perhaps some of their own

­With confidence and a touch of swag

she walks in carefully

and investing

Both deeply serious and wickedly funny

"--Deesha Philyaw