The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

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Release Date: 05/30/2017
Publisher: Beacon Press
Classification: Nonfiction
Classification: Nonfiction
Series: N/A
Language: English
Format: Unabridged edition
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, African-American
Author: Angela Jackson
Read by: Janina Edwards
Duration: 464 minutes
Run Time: 464 minutes
Language: English
Language: English
Audio Library Digital - 9781520090436
Audio Retail Digital - 9781520090443
6 Audio CD(s) - 9781520090429
1 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781520090450

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun

The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

By Angela Jackson

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, African-American

Audio Library Digital

11/08/2017

464 minutes

9781520090436

Audio Retail Digital

11/08/2017

464 minutes

9781520090443

Audio CD

11/08/2017

6 Audio CD

464 minutes

9781520090429

Audio MP3 CD

11/08/2017

1 Audio MP3 CD

464 minutes

9781520090450

Description:

Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century and the first black person awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Over nearly six decades, her poetry showed complex portraits of black American life and served as witness to the stark realities of urban living. A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks's work and world and traces the literary arc of her long career, using forty-three of her most soul-stirring poems as a guide. It is a commemoration of a writer who negotiated black womanhood and incomparable brilliance with a changing, restless world-an artistic maverick ahead of her time.

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Jackson's sensitive portrait of this 'quiet genius' and her finely calibrated insights into her writing celebrate Brooks's warmth, her 'bitter bite, her slicing sarcasm,' and the revolutionary provocation and power of her courageous, caring, intricately faceted poems, poems to read and reread for their emotional, social, and moral repercussions-and for their expounding beauty., Booklist

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