Selected Poems (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060931744 ISBN 13: 9780060931742

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999

Synopsis

The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet and winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize that represents her technical mastery, her compassionate and illuminating response to a world that is both special and universal, and her warm humanity.

About this title

About the Author:

Gwendolyn Brooks, daughter of David and Keziah Brooks, was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, and lived in Chicago, Illinois. Before she died in 2000, she wrote a novel, an autobiography, writing manuals, children's verse, and several books of poetry, including A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, The Bean Eaters, Maud Martha, and In the Mecca. She was the wife of author Henry Blakely and mother of director Nora Blakely.

Review:

"When Miss Brooks...writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement." -- New York Times

"From her poet's craft bursts a whole gallery of wholly alive persons...Many a novelist cannot do so well in ten times the space." -- Christian Science Monitor

"She is a very good poet, the only superlative I dare use in our time of misusage; compared...to the best of modern poets, she ranks high." -- Harvey Curtis Webster

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060931744
• ISBN 13: 9780060931742
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160