Gwendolyn Brooks: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
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- Kustantaja: Library of America
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781931082877
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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 withA Street in Bronzeville(1945), her epoch-making debut volume, The Essential Gwendolyn Brookstraces 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. '