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Author | : Suzanne Slade |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1683354729 |
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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.
Author | : George E. Kent |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813128009 |
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Author | : Gwendolyn Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780883781050 |
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Presents a collection of the author's poetry and prose.
Author | : Alice Faye Duncan |
Publisher | : Union Square & Co. |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2020-02-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1454941642 |
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“A stirring, accessible introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks and a must-have for all elementary collections.” —School Library Journal (Starred review) “The combination of biography and Brooks' own poems makes for a strong, useful, and beautiful text . . . A solid introduction to a brilliant writer”—Kirkus. Acclaimed writer Alice Faye Duncan tells the story of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. SING a song for Gwendolyn Brooks. Sing it loud—a Chicago blues. With a voice both wise and witty, Gwendolyn Brooks crafted poems that captured the urban Black experience and the role of women in society. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, reading and writing constantly from a young age, her talent lovingly nurtured by her parents. Brooks ultimately published 20 books of poetry, two autobiographies, and one novel. Alice Faye Duncan has created her own song to celebrate Gwendolyn’s life and work, illuminating the tireless struggle of revision and the sweet reward of success.
Author | : Gwendolyn Brooks |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : African American families |
ISBN | : |
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This was the Pulitzer Prize-winner's first new collection of poetry after a gap of nearly ten years. "I was to be a Watchful Eye; a Tuned Ear; a Super-reporter," Brooks said. "I began writing about whatever I thought I knew, whatever I experienced." What she knew and experienced in those years resulted in poetry charged with a new power and urgency. The book takes its title from a long narrative poem set in a huge decayed apartment house in Chicago's black ghetto, a building called the Mecca. A tragedy in the Mecca gives rise to Brooks' extraordinary poetic evocation of its dense personal miseries and sense of life. Nine shorter poems follow, and these too, in large part, have their source in contemporary figures and circumstances: Medgar Evers and Malcolm X, "the Blackstone Rangers gang," the astonishing prideful mural painted on a ghetto wall one summer. The universality that transcends the immediate event, and is the mark of poetic sensibility, distinguishes all the poetry here. Gwendolyn Brooks' stature as a poet who "induces almost unbearable excitement"--As Phyllis McGinley described her--is here enriched by the new dimensions her work encompasses.--Adapted from book jacket.
Author | : Gwendolyn Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : African American women |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gwendolyn Brooks |
Publisher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1598533819 |
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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.”
Author | : Terrance Hayes |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2019-06-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 168226095X |
Download The Golden Shovel Anthology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.
Author | : Gwendolyn Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780979580314 |
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Seasons: A Gwendolyn Brooks Experience is a 360 look at a beloved poet Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to ever win the Pulitzer Prize.
Author | : Gwendolyn Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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