Gwendolyn Brooks reads her poems aloud

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  • Selected Poems

    • ASIN: 0060882964
    • ISBN: 0060882964
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    "Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation."   — Robert F. KiernanSelected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collect... [Read More]

  • The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)

    • ASIN: 1931082871
    • ISBN: 1931082871
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    "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 th... [Read More]

  • Blacks

    • ASIN: 0883781050
    • ISBN: 0883781050
    • Manufacturer: Third World Press

    Here is a necessary collection of poetry for admirers of words and treasurers of literary beauty. Spanning more than 30 years, this collection of literary masterpieces by the venerable Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks, arguably Illinois' most beloved Poet Laureate and Chicago's elder black literary stateswoman, ""Blacks"" includes all of Ms. Brooks' critically... [Read More]

  • Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks (Literary Conversations)

    • ASIN: 1578065755
    • ISBN: 1578065755
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi

    Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks features sparkling interviews with one of America's most valued poets. Throughout this book, which spans three decades, Brooks (1917-2000) speaks with simplicity, depth, candor, and passion about the making of a poem and about the position of the poet in humane society. A poem, she believed, comes from the hear... [Read More]

  • "Cats Are Happier Than People", GWENDOLYN BROOKS POEM, Animal Lovers, Poetry Quote Print, Typography Poster, Inspirational Quote, Wall Art - FREE POSTER WITH EVERY ORDER

    • ASIN: B07Q6V8DRP
    • Brand: Boutique Poetry

    FRAME NOT INCLUDED.

  • Maud Martha

    • ASIN: 0883780615
    • ISBN: 0883780615
    • Brand: Brand: Third World Press
    • Manufacturer: Third World Press

    September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Initially entitled ""American Family Brown"" the work would eventually come to symbolize some of Brooks' most provocative writing. In a novel that captures the essence of Black life, Brooks recognizes the beauty and strength that l... [Read More]

  • Just For You! (24 Book Bundle)

    • ASIN: B00XK7IV9M

    From Book 1: Sharing a game of basketball ... a movie about ninjas... How would you spend a day with Daddy? Reading Level 2 (grade 1). Includes tips for reading with a parent, plus after-reading activities!

  • Black Voices (Signet Classics)

    • ASIN: 0451527828
    • ISBN: 0451527828
    • Manufacturer: Signet

    “If you don’t know my name, you don’t know your own.”—James Baldwin Featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Black Voices captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and heard in the works of today’s African-American artists. A comprehensive and impres... [Read More]

  • Bronzeville Boys and Girls

    • ASIN: 0060295058
    • ISBN: 0060295058
    • Brand: Amistad
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams of the children who live together in an urban neighborhood. In 1956, Gwendolyn Brooks created thirty-four poems that celebrated the joy, beauty, imagination, and ... [Read More]

  • Great Poems by American Women: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759401642
    • ASIN: 0486401642
    • ISBN: 0486401642
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    From the colonial-era poets to such twentieth-century writers as Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath, this inspiring anthology offers a retrospective of more than three centuries of poems by American women. Over 200 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations ... [Read More]

  • Urban Rage in Bronzeville: Social Commentary in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945-1960

    • ASIN: 0883781956
    • ISBN: 0883781956
    • Manufacturer: Third World Press

    An examination of the work of Gwendolyn Brooks with the background of the current socio-political scene in Chicago's Bronzeville in its heyday.

  • The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems

    • ASIN: 0883780550
    • ISBN: 0883780550
    • Brand: Brand: Third World Press
    • Manufacturer: Third World Press

    Brooks writes about Africa and the African Americans.

  • Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems

    • ASIN: 0805034943
    • ISBN: 9780805034943
    • Brand: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

  • Winnie

    • ASIN: 088378050X
    • ISBN: 088378050X
    • Manufacturer: Third World Press

    A group of poems dedicated to Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela who was the first indigenous leader to hold the office of President of the Republic of South Africa.

  • Very Young Poets

    • ASIN: 0883780461
    • ISBN: 0883780461
    • Manufacturer: Third World Press

    A very simple set of instructions for young people who are trying to write poetry.

  • Twentieth-Century American Poetry

    • ASIN: 0072400196
    • ISBN: 0072400196
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

    With the end of the 1900s, the time has come for a thorough assessment of one hundred years of poetry - from the widely acclaimed to the subtly influential - and with an eye to the importance and meaning of poetry in America. Compiled by three poets and poetry scholars - including 2002 American Book Award Winner Dana Gioia - this anthology presents... [Read More]

  • Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry

    • ASIN: 0932379664
    • ISBN: 0932379664
    • Brand: Brand: Firebrand Books
    • Manufacturer: Firebrand Books

    Poems deal with childhood, the past, exile, art, sisters, music, identity, and school

  • Gwendolyn Brooks reads her poems aloud

    5 poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

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