A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks - Hardcover

Kent, George E.

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9780813116594: A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

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ISBN 10: 0813116597 ISBN 13: 9780813116594

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1990

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Traces the life of the Black American poet, analyzes her major works, and discusses the influences on her poetry

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From Library Journal:

This long-awaited volume by the late George Kent is the first full-scale biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Kent carefully chronicles Brooks's aesthetic and political development in relation to familial and literary influences, the Chicago arts community, and the civil rights and black nationalist movements. Brooks is dramatically and critically portrayed as an artist struggling to create a style that reflects the particularities of her own and other black Americans' experiences while conveying a greater universalism in black life and literature. Her achievements as a critic, teacher, speaker, philanthropist, and activist are also emphasized. Enriched by generous quotes from Brooks's early notebooks, as well as anecdotes from the poet, her family, and her friends, this book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in Brooks or American poetry.
- Deborah Gussman, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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From Publishers Weekly:

Completed shortly before the death of University of Chicago professor Kent, this major study of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks ends with the death of her mother in 1978. Based on interviews, correspondence and the poet's private notebooks, the biography examines the change in her verse from the formality and traditionalism of her early work to the later inclusion of ordinary speech, loose rhythms and communal reference points that won her a mass audience. Also noted is Brooks's identification and solidarity with the black struggle and the consequences of blacks' "strangerhood" in America.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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