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"The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner Terrance Hayes. The form uses a line from another poem (in this case, all lines come from Gwendolyn Brooks poems) to create end-words for a new poem. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks's daughter"--
Poetry, Modern --- Brooks, Gwendolyn, --- Brooks, Gwendolyn, --- Influence.
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This is the first full-scale biography of Gwendolyn Brooks, one of America's major poets. George E. Kent, a longtime friend and literary associate of the poet in Chicago, was given exclusive access to Brooks' early notebooks, which she kept from the age of seven. Kent also interviewed Brooks, her mother, and other family members in Chicago and elsewhere. He scoured records and correspondence with her publishers, editors, and agent. He participated in the poet's literary enterprises and in her wide circle of literary and family friends. The study reveals intimate acquaintance with the Harlem Re
American literature --- Brooks, G. --- Brooks, Gwendolyn --- Biography --- Poets [American ] --- 20th century --- African Americans --- Intellectual life --- African American poets --- Poets, American --- Brooks, Gwendolyn, --- Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks, --- Brooks, Keziah C.
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African Americans in literature. --- Women and literature --- History --- Brooks (gwendolyn), 1917-2000
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Ethnicity in literature --- Lee, Chin Yang --- Brooks, Gwendolyn --- Saroyan, William --- Sirk, Douglas --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo
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Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the major American poets of this century and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1950). Yet far less critical attention has focused on her work than on that of her peers.In this comprehensive biocritical study, Melhem -- herself a poet and critic -- traces the development of Brooks's poetry over four decades, from such early works as A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, and The Bean Eaters, to the more recent In the Mecca, Riot, and To Disembark.In addition to analyzing the poetic devices used, Melhem examines the biographical, historical
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YERBY (FRANK) --- BARRETT (LINDSAY) --- CULTURE --- BROOKS (GWENDOLYN), 1917-2000 --- MARSHALL (PAULE), 1929 --- -MORRISON (TONI), 1931 --- -TOOMER (JEAN), 1894-1967 --- U.S. --- YERBY (FRANK) --- BARRETT (LINDSAY) --- CULTURE --- BROOKS (GWENDOLYN), 1917-2000 --- MARSHALL (PAULE), 1929 --- -MORRISON (TONI), 1931 --- -TOOMER (JEAN), 1894-1967 --- U.S. --- BLACKS
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LITERATURE --- RANDALL (DUDLEY) --- MADHUBUTI (HAKI R.) --- SANCHEZ (SONIA) --- CORTEZ (JAYNE) --- BARAKA (AMIRI) --- LEE (DON L.) --- LeROI (JONES) --- BROOKS (GWENDOLYN), 1917-2000 --- U.S. --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- LITERATURE --- RANDALL (DUDLEY) --- MADHUBUTI (HAKI R.) --- SANCHEZ (SONIA) --- CORTEZ (JAYNE) --- BARAKA (AMIRI) --- LEE (DON L.) --- LeROI (JONES) --- BROOKS (GWENDOLYN), 1917-2000 --- U.S. --- POETRY --- BLACK --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW --- INTERVIEW
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Faulkner, William --- Wright, Richard --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Baldwin, James --- McKay, Claude --- Hughes, Langston --- Brooks, Gwendolyn --- Baraka, Imamu Amiri --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Mitchell, Loften, 1919 --- -Davis, Ossie, 1917-2005 --- Ward, Douglas Turner, 1930-
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Lynchage dans la littérature --- Lynchen in de literatuur --- Lynching in literature --- American literature --- Lynching --- Homicide --- History and criticism --- Historiography --- History --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Race relations --- Wells, Ida Barnett --- Criticism and interpretation --- Crane, Stephen --- Johnson, James Weldon --- Brooks, Gwendolyn --- Anti-lynching movements
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