Jan 7, 2009

Annie Allen | Annie Allen

At a glance:

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
First Published: 1949
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence, Sonnet
Subjects: African Americans, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Mothers, Parents and children, Racism, Marriage, Women’s issues, Adultery, Widows or widowers

Critical Evaluation:

With the publication of her second book of poetry, Annie Allen, Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. The blackness-nourishing collection is arranged in three parts: “Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood,” “The Anniad” (which includes the long poem of that title and two short works as “Appendix to the Anniad”), and “The Womanhood.” As the titles imply, each section of the book corresponds to a stage in the life of Annie Allen.

Brooks is securely anchored in the African...

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Annie Allen | Annie Allen

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