{"product_id":"the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks-american-poets-project-19","title":"The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project #19)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize—now in one collectible volume\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Street in Bronzeville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Essential Gwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003etraces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“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’ poetry retains its power to move and surprise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the American Poets Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Call \u0026 Response Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44804377182277,"sku":"9781931082877","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/6621\/4213\/files\/9781931082877_jpg.webp?v=1774115139","url":"https:\/\/www.callandresponsechi.com\/products\/the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks-american-poets-project-19","provider":"Call \u0026 Response Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}