• Selected Poems

    "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 collection showcases Brooks’ technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.

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

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

    "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 s... [Read More]

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

  • Blacks

    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 acclaimed writings. Within its covers is the groundbreaking ""Annie Allen,"" which earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. There is also the sweepingly beautiful and finely crafted ""A Street in Bronzeville,"" a highly anticipated and lauded poetic t... [Read More]

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

  • Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks (Literary Conversations)

    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 heart. In each interview, she speaks from the heart and wins over the reader. The interviews took place in various settings-in radio recording studios and in university classrooms, in the coveted spotlight of a National Endowment for the Humanities celeb... [Read More]

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

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

    FRAME NOT INCLUDED.

    • ASIN: B07Q6V8DRP
    • ASIN: B07Q6V8DRP
    • Brand: Boutique Poetry

  • Maud Martha

    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 lies within each of us.

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

  • Just For You! (24 Book Bundle)

    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!

    • ASIN: B00XK7IV9M
    • ASIN: B00XK7IV9M

  • Black Voices (Signet Classics)

    “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 impressive primer, this anthology presents some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States. Contributors Include:Sterling A. BrownCharles W. ChesnuttJohn Henrik ClarkeCountee CullenFrederick Dou... [Read More]

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

  • Bronzeville Boys and Girls

    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 freedom of childhood. Bronzeville Boys and Girls features these timeless poems, which remind us that whether we live in the Bronzeville section of Chicago or any other neighborhood, childhood is universal in its richness of emotions and new experienc... [Read More]

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

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

    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 of the natural world, and many more."To My Dear and Loving Husband," written by America's first poet of note, Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), appears here, along with "On Imagination," by Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), America's first great black woman... [Read More]

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

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

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

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

  • The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems

    Brooks writes about Africa and the African Americans.

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

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


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

  • Winnie

    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.

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

  • Very Young Poets

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

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

  • Best Loved Poems of American People

    Collection of the most popular American poems grouped by subject including Love and friendship, Inspiration, and Faith and

    • UPC: 461703
    • Rating: 4.667

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

    A selection of the influential African-American poet's works reflects her modernist style and includes numerous definitive World War II poems as well as pieces about the social and political upheavals of the

    • UPC: 3753776
    • Rating: 4.0

  • 100 Best Poems for Children

    Books : 100 Best Poems for Children (Puffin Poetry)

    • UPC: 772242114
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's favorite poems are collected here, selected by her daughter, including the work of Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Homer, Yeats, and Emily Dickinson, among others. 250,000 first

    • UPC: 43151806
    • Rating: 4.25

  • The 100 Best Poems of All Time

    An anthology of poetry from around the world includes works by Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, Poe, both Brownings, Dickinson, Eliot, Neruda, Plath, and Angelou, as well as poems and songs that have entered popular

    • UPC: 1071285
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Selected Poems

    This volume brings together the best of the Pulitzer Prize winner's work from three earlier books now out of print, and includes a section of new poems which have not appeared before in book

    • UPC: 4014946
    • Rating: 3.5

  • The Best Poems of the English Language : From Chaucer Through Robert Frost

    The great critic presents his personal selection, with commentary, of the finest poems in the English

    • UPC: 5330962
    • Rating: 4.0

  • A Million Brilliant Poems: Pt. 1: A Collection of the Very Best Children's Poetry Today (Paperback)

    Roger Stevens has selected the very best children's poetry published over the last 15 years in one fabulous book. Funny poems, sad poems, and poems to learn by heart and many many more from today's

    • UPC: 996461795

  • Best Remembered Poems - eBook

    The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat"

    • UPC: 688015887
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Whiskey of Our Discontent : Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent

    Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and

    • UPC: 55695763

  • Gwendolyn Brooks reads her poems aloud

    5 poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

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