{"product_id":"the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks-american-poets-project-19-hardcover","title":"The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize--now in one collectible volume\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eA Street in Bronzeville\u003c\/i\u003e (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Gwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e traces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the American Poets Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress--the forerunner of the U.S. Poet Laureate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of this volume, is the author of four books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e, and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eThe Black Interior\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation as well as the George Kent Award, given by Gwendolyn Brooks. She is a professor at Yale University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 7.86 x 4.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769970098464,"sku":"9781931082877","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/34e3198646a05b880a3ff6474f6e6de4.webp?v=1780361305","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks-american-poets-project-19-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}