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ISBN: 1931082871 (ISBN13: 9781931082877)
Edition Language: English

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"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's poetry retains its power to move and surprise.

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Title:The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 200 pages
Published:November 17th 2005 by Library of America
Categories:Poetry. Cultural. African American. Feminism

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read for black poetry. love, love, love the selection. "the anniad" was clever and a dream for an english major. my favorite poem is, "love note/I: surely"

If I ever teach a unit on the Civil Rights Movement or To Kill a Mockingbird, it would be wise to include a sampling of her poetry.In particular the poem, The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock.

She is the real thing.

The Egg Boiler by Gwendolyn Brooks"Being you, you cut your poetry from wood.The boiling of an egg is heavy art.You come upon it as an artist should,With rich-eyed passion, and with straining heart.We fools, we cut our poems out of air.Night color, wind soprano, and such stuff.And sometimes weightlessness is much to bear.You mock it, though, you name it Not Enough.The egg, spooned gently to the avid pan,And left the strick three minute, or the four,Is your Enough and art for any man.We fools give

4.5. When she lands, she lands in full. With heavy weight. All too real. Heart-breaking. And yet heart-warming. Romantic. Heroic. Intimate. Passionate. Righteous. Angry. And proud. Funny. Sorrowful. Harsh. Beautiful. So beautiful. Clever. Musical. Honest. Important. Very important. Vital.

Love, love, love her work.

As with other Modernist poets, I found Gwendolyn's poetry okay. There were a few poems like "Sadie and Maud" and "The Ballad of Pearl May Lee" that were rich in content, rhythm, and rhyme, and others like "The Catch of Shy Fish" that I skipped after the firt stanza (abstract, slant rhymes were awkward) Unfortunatey, there were more of the latter type in this collection.