Book description
Selected 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's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating responseā¦
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Everyone should read this book and own this book, which contains key poems from A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen (the book for which Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950), The Bean Eaters, as well as new poems. Brooksās sonnets are like a knife in a heart made vulnerable. I could read these poemsāespecially āThe Sundays of Satin-Legs Smithāāagain and again. Gwendolyn Brooks was the best American poet of the twentieth century, bar none.
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