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From Publishers Weekly
Completed shortly before the death of University of Chicago professor Kent, this major study of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks ends with the death of her mother in 1978. Based on interviews, correspondence and the poet's private notebooks, the biography examines the change in her verse from the formality and traditionalism of her early work to the later inclusion of ordinary speech, loose rhythms and communal reference points that won her a mass audience. Also noted is Brooks's identification and solidarity with the black struggle and the consequences of blacks' "strangerhood" in America.
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From Library Journal
This long-awaited volume by the late George Kent is the first full-scale biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Kent carefully chronicles Brooks's aesthetic and political development in relation to familial and literary influences, the Chicago arts community, and the civil rights and black nationalist movements. Brooks is dramatically and critically portrayed as an artist struggling to create a style that reflects the particularities of her own and other black Americans' experiences while conveying a greater universalism in black life and literature. Her achievements as a critic, teacher, speaker, philanthropist, and activist are also emphasized. Enriched by generous quotes from Brooks's early notebooks, as well as anecdotes from the poet, her family, and her friends, this book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in Brooks or American poetry.
- Deborah Gussman, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Completed shortly before the death of University of Chicago professor Kent, this major study of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks ends with the death of her mother in 1978. Based on interviews, correspondence and the poet's private notebooks, the biography examines the change in her verse from the formality and traditionalism of her early work to the later inclusion of ordinary speech, loose rhythms and communal reference points that won her a mass audience. Also noted is Brooks's identification and solidarity with the black struggle and the consequences of blacks' "strangerhood" in America.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This long-awaited volume by the late George Kent is the first full-scale biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Kent carefully chronicles Brooks's aesthetic and political development in relation to familial and literary influences, the Chicago arts community, and the civil rights and black nationalist movements. Brooks is dramatically and critically portrayed as an artist struggling to create a style that reflects the particularities of her own and other black Americans' experiences while conveying a greater universalism in black life and literature. Her achievements as a critic, teacher, speaker, philanthropist, and activist are also emphasized. Enriched by generous quotes from Brooks's early notebooks, as well as anecdotes from the poet, her family, and her friends, this book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in Brooks or American poetry.
- Deborah Gussman, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Keziah Brooks first encountered her daughter Gwendolyn's talent when she found her scribbling two-line verses at the age of seven. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
liberal critical consensus, downtown vaudeville, kitchenette building, winter squirrel, living lady, black solidarity, black poetry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maud Martha, Annie Allen, Gwendolyn Brooks, New York, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Lawrence, Pulitzer Prize, Chicago Defender, Miss Brooks, Negro Digest, World War, Richard Wright, Frank London Brown, Harlem Renaissance, Little Rock, Chicago Daily News, Lerone Bennett, Negro Hero, South Side, Walter Bradford, James Baldwin, Margaret Danner, Martin Luther King, Mecca Building, Aunt Gertrude New!
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Keziah Brooks first encountered her daughter Gwendolyn's talent when she found her scribbling two-line verses at the age of seven. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
liberal critical consensus, downtown vaudeville, kitchenette building, winter squirrel, living lady, black solidarity, black poetry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maud Martha, Annie Allen, Gwendolyn Brooks, New York, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Lawrence, Pulitzer Prize, Chicago Defender, Miss Brooks, Negro Digest, World War, Richard Wright, Frank London Brown, Harlem Renaissance, Little Rock, Chicago Daily News, Lerone Bennett, Negro Hero, South Side, Walter Bradford, James Baldwin, Margaret Danner, Martin Luther King, Mecca Building, Aunt Gertrude New!
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- Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks on 6 pages
- Maud Martha: A Novel by Gwendolyn Brooks on 5 pages
- Trumbull Park (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by Frank London Brown on 5 pages
- Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962. by Herbert, Ed. Hill on 4 pages
- The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project) by Gwendolyn Brooks on 4 pages
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- Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou by Zofia A. Burr in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Christopher R. Miller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Shelly Eversley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (Carter G Woodson Honor Book (Awards)) by Martha E. Rhynes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize by Patrice Vecchione in Back Matter
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