Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

Selected Poems

Front Cover
26 Reviews
HarperCollins, Jul 3, 2006 - Poetry - 127 pages
Publisher description -- The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.

What people are saying - Write a review

User ratings

5 stars
11
4 stars
9
3 stars
1
2 stars
1
1 star
0

Review: Selected Poems

User Review  - Alan - Goodreads

Gwendolyn Brooks should have been our Inaugural poet, if Clinton valued literature more, politics less. There's little comparison between her poetry and her sophomoric colleagues'. "We real cool. We ... Read full review

Review: Selected Poems

User Review  - Douglas Feil - Goodreads

Some of my favorites were, "The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon", "The Vacant Lot", "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed", and "To Be in Love". From The Aeneid to Civil Rights, her poetic voice was as unique and varied as her themes. Read full review

All 26 reviews »

Related books

References from web pages

mother words: mothers who write: brooks and my failure with form
I just read Gwendolyn Brooks' Selected Poems for one of my book clubs. I'm actually embarrassed to admit that this is the first time I've read her work. ...
motherswhowrite.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 03/ brooks-and-my-failure-with-form.html

POETRY MASTER
William Carlos Williams: SELECTED POEMS (0939149613) ... Galway Kinnell: A NEW SELECTED POEMS (0618021876) ... Philip Booth: SELECTED POEMS (0670882879) ...
www.poetrymaster.com/ bookshelf.html

JSTOR: Dream Motif in Contemporary Negro Poetry
ENGLISH JOURNAL THE DREAM KEEPERS: STUDY OF CON- TEMPORARY NEGRO POETRY This unit features selected poems from works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0013-8274(197009)59%3A6%3C767%3ADMICNP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

MFA
Amiri Baraka, Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/leroi Jones (1961-1995) ... Quincy Troupe, Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems ...
www.umsl.edu/ ~mfa/ resources/ poetry.html

The Poetry of Aging
In Selected Poems, 3rd edition. Revised and Enlarged. ... In Selected Poems of May Sarton. Edited by Serena Sue Hilsinger and Lois Byrnes. ...
www.tc.umn.edu/ ~ryahnke/ poetry/ poetry6.htm

State of Illinois - Rod Blagojevich, Governor
African American Audio Experience (CD set includes poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks); Ana Castillo, My Father was a Toltec: and Selected Poems; Cool Salsa: ...
poetlaureate.il.gov/ poetrynowbooks.cfm

Poetry Analysis of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Selected Poems
Poetry Analysis of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Selected Poems term papers and essays.
www.universitip.com/ term-papers/ Poetry-Analysis-of-Gwendolyn-Brooks%E2%80%99-Selected-Poems-31479.html

African American Poetry Sampler
Transbluesency: The Selected Poems Of Amiri. B224t. Baraka/leroi Jones (1961-1995) ... Conjure: Selected Poems, 1963-1970. R324c. 811.54. Sanchez, Sonia ...
www.mc-npl.org/ Reference/ RecReading/ AfrAm_Poetry_Jan%5B1%5D._06.pdf

Marsha Bryant / Recent Courses
TEXTS: Ted Hughes, New Selected Poems; Rita Dove, Selected Poems & A Poet's World; Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems; ...
www.clas.ufl.edu/ users/ mbryant/ recents.html

Pulitzer Prizes Awarded to Yaddo Guests
Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems, 1966 Robert Lowell, The Dolphin, 1974 ... William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, 1988 ...
www.yaddo.org/ yaddo/ PulitzerPrizes.shtml

About the author (2006)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Annie Allen and one of the most celebrated African American poets. She was Poet Laureate for the state of Illinois, a National Women's Hall of Fame inductee, and a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She received fifty honorary degrees. Her other books include a Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Maud Martha.

Bibliographic information