The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

American Poets Project #19

Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander

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The Library of America
17 November 2005

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Poetry anthologies; Historical fiction

Series: American Poets Project

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.

By: Gwendolyn Brooks
Edited by: Elizabeth Alexander
Imprint: The Library of America
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 19
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 119mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 238g
ISBN: 9781931082877
ISBN 10: 1931082871
Series: American Poets Project
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 17 November 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. Elizabeth Alexander, editor of this volume, is the author of four books of poems, including American Sublime, and the essay collection The Black Interior. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation as well as the George Kent Award, given by Gwendolyn Brooks. She is a professor at Yale University.