Author: Suzanne Slade
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683354729
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A 2021 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from early girlhood into her adult life, showcasing her desire to write poetry from a very young age. This picture-book biography explores the intersections of race, gender, and the ubiquitous poverty of the Great Depression—all with a lyrical touch worthy of the subject. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. And in 1958, she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. A bold artist who from a very young age dared to dream, Brooks will inspire young readers to create poetry from their own lives.
Exquisite
Author: Suzanne Slade
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683354729
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A 2021 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from early girlhood into her adult life, showcasing her desire to write poetry from a very young age. This picture-book biography explores the intersections of race, gender, and the ubiquitous poverty of the Great Depression—all with a lyrical touch worthy of the subject. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. And in 1958, she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. A bold artist who from a very young age dared to dream, Brooks will inspire young readers to create poetry from their own lives.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683354729
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A 2021 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from early girlhood into her adult life, showcasing her desire to write poetry from a very young age. This picture-book biography explores the intersections of race, gender, and the ubiquitous poverty of the Great Depression—all with a lyrical touch worthy of the subject. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. And in 1958, she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. A bold artist who from a very young age dared to dream, Brooks will inspire young readers to create poetry from their own lives.
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher: American Poets Project
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Presents more than eighty poems spanning the career of twentieth-century African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, which explore life on Chicago's south side.
Publisher: American Poets Project
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Presents more than eighty poems spanning the career of twentieth-century African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, which explore life on Chicago's south side.
A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
Author: George E. Kent
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813128009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813128009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578065752
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A collection of interviews which help chronicle the life and career of African-American author Gwendolyn Brooks.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578065752
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A collection of interviews which help chronicle the life and career of African-American author Gwendolyn Brooks.
A Street in Bronzeville
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598533819
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Gwendolyn Brooks 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. Here, in an exclusive Library of America E-Book Classic edition, is her groundbreaking first book of poems, a searing portrait of Chicago’s South Side. “I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street,” she later said. “There was my material.”
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598533819
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Gwendolyn Brooks 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. Here, in an exclusive Library of America E-Book Classic edition, is her groundbreaking first book of poems, a searing portrait of Chicago’s South Side. “I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street,” she later said. “There was my material.”
Report from Part One
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The author relates the events of her life to her ongoing struggle to freely express the ideas and emotions of an African-American poet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The author relates the events of her life to her ongoing struggle to freely express the ideas and emotions of an African-American poet
Religious Allusion in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
Author: Margot Harper Banks
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078644939X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book examines how Gwendolyn Brooks, a self-proclaimed nonreligious person, advocates adherence to Christian ideals through religious allusions in her poetry. The discussion integrates Brooks' words, biographical data, commentary by other scholars, scriptural references, and doctrinal tenets. It identifies biblical figures and events and highlights Brooks' effective use of the sermon genre, and her express parallels between Christianity and Democracy. The work opens with a biographical chapter and Brooks' comments on religion, followed by analyses of her long poems, and more than thirty of her short ones. An illuminating interview with Nora Brooks Blakely about Brooks' religious background and philosophy is included.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078644939X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book examines how Gwendolyn Brooks, a self-proclaimed nonreligious person, advocates adherence to Christian ideals through religious allusions in her poetry. The discussion integrates Brooks' words, biographical data, commentary by other scholars, scriptural references, and doctrinal tenets. It identifies biblical figures and events and highlights Brooks' effective use of the sermon genre, and her express parallels between Christianity and Democracy. The work opens with a biographical chapter and Brooks' comments on religion, followed by analyses of her long poems, and more than thirty of her short ones. An illuminating interview with Nora Brooks Blakely about Brooks' religious background and philosophy is included.
Riot
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484447703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A collection of illustrated poems that reflects the experiences and feelings of African American children living in big cities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484447703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A collection of illustrated poems that reflects the experiences and feelings of African American children living in big cities.
The Golden Shovel Anthology
Author: Terrance Hayes
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 168226095X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
“The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 168226095X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
“The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.