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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
- (American Poets Project #19)
Engelsk Hardback
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
- (American Poets Project #19)
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
174
ISBN-13:
9781931082877
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1931082871
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
17 nov 2005
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
120mm
Forlag:
The Library of America
Oplagsdato:
17 nov 2005
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