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Original Title:	The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
ISBN:	1931082871 (ISBN13: 9781931082877)
Edition Language:	English

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"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African-American cultural tradition, a poetry that registered the life of the streets and the upheavals of the 20th century. Starting with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks traces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts.

"Her formal range," writes editor Elizabeth Alexander, "is most impressive, as she experiments with sonnets, ballads, spirituals, blues, full and off-rhymes. She is nothing short of a technical virtuoso." That technical virtuosity was matched by a restless curiosity about the life around her in all its explosive variety. By turns compassionate, angry, satiric, and psychologically penetrating, Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry retains its power to move and surprise.

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Title	:	The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Author	:	Gwendolyn Brooks
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 200 pages
Published	:	November 17th 2005 by Library of America
Categories	:	Poetry. Cultural. African American. Feminism

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Love, love, love her work.

I really like what I've read of hers so far..

The Kitchenette Building is one of the best poems I've ever read.

Just brilliant:THE EGG BOILERBeing you, you cut your poetry from wood.The boiling of an egg is heavy art.You come upon it as an artist should,With rich-eyed passion, and with straining heart.We fools, we cut our poems out of air.Night color, wind soprano, and such stuff.And sometimes weightlessness is much to bear.You mock it, though, you name it Not Enough.The egg, spooned gently to the avid pan,And left the strick three minute, or the four,Is your Enough and art for any man.We fools give

Didn't finish -perhaps because National Poetry Month was over and I no longer "carried the flag?"

Gwendolyn Brooks takes the reader to the Southside and Mississippi and Little Rock and makes all the necessary introductions. You know what her people don't want you to know, and more than they think she knows. One of the 20th Century's greatest poets.

Brooks poems speak about racism and African-American life. She mainly wrote about what surrounded her. She said, If you wanted a poem, you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing. (The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks, p. xvii) Brooks wrote about 75 published poems by the time she turned sixteen years old. So she never stopped trying to perfect her craft as a poet there after, while in turn writing poetry that reflected the