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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 s

The author relates the events of her life to her ongoing struggle to freely express the ideas and emotions of an African-American poet

A look back at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her hundredth birthday Artist–Rebel–Pio

Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black

These 18 critical essays place Brooks' work in a personal as well as social and cultural context and reflect in a chronological manner an appreciation of the en