by Gwendolyn Brooks (Author), D. H. Melhem (Afterword by)

Musings and notes about the life, the family, and travels of Gwendolyn Brooks that is a reprise of a prior book, Report from Part One, published by Broadside Press in 1972. Brooks was the Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986. This volume includes her introductions of visiting writers during that period.

Author Biography

Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer prize (1950), and she was the poetry consultant for the Library of Congress and the Poet Laureate of Illinois.