Book
A surprised queenhood in the new black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks / Angela Jackson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807025048 : HRD
- ISBN: 0807025046 : HRD
- Physical Description: 204 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. ... Now, in A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun, fellow Chicagoan and award-winning writer Angela Jackson delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks’s work and world. Granted unprecedented access to Brooks’s family, personal papers, and writing community, Jackson traces the literary arc of this artist’s long career and gives context for the world in which Brooks wrote and published her work. It is a powerfully intimate look at a once-in-a-lifetime talent up close, using forty-three of Brooks’s most soul-stirring poems as a guide."--Amazon.com. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Poets, American > 20th century > Biography. African American poets > Biography. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
