Dec 24, 2009

The Poetry of Brooks | The Poetry of Brooks

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Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
First Published: 1945
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Subjects: African Americans, Culture, Family or family life, Politics, Love or romance, Race, Gender roles, Poverty or poor people, Emotions, Inner cities or inner-city life

However the canon of African American poetry is to be construed—from Phillis Wheatley to Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countée Cullen to Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka to Michael Harper, Robert Hayden to Haki Madhubuti—there can be no way of diminishing, or sidelining, the wholly singular achievement of Gwendolyn Brooks. Quite simply, she has ranked as a prime American imagination since her first collection, A Street in Bronzeville. Black by birthright, consciously or not “womanist” (in Alice Walker’s term), she has shown the ability to range from a modernist experimentalism...

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The Poetry of Brooks | The Poetry of Brooks

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