Gwendolyn Brooks

DescriptionA picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-20...

Reducere. Description"The combination of biography and Brooks' own poems makes for a strong, useful, and beautiful text . . . A solid introduction to a brill...

Reducere. ``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 ...

Description"The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume....

The dynamic course of Afro-American literature from oppression through protest to liberation is depicted in the anthology. Long and Collier have ad...

Reducere. Keli Stewart's profound, visceral and heady debut poetry collection is simultaneously autobiographical memoir and social commentary in conversation...

Reducere. DescriptionTraversing twenty-three years of earth and breath, Quraysh Ali Lansana's first new and collected poems roadmaps small town Oklahoma to s...

Reducere. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night--the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets--is back in print....

A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defen...

A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine - Time - Vogue - Vulture - Essence - Elle - Cosmopolitan - Real Simple - Marie Claire - Refinery ...

Reducere. "Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep" is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the mo...

Reducere. "Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by ""New York Times ""bestselling author Nikki Giovanni" Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giov...

Reducere. "Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who b...

Reducere. DescriptionRobert Sengstacke Abbott had a vision, purpose, and a slogan that said it all: "American race prejudice must be destroyed." In 1905, Abb...

Reducere. "Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who b...

DescriptionThe Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldec...

Reducere. DescriptionThe politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recen...

Reducere. "[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years."--Latino RebelsBlack Girl Magic continues ...

Reducere. In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative ...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

DescriptionAt 2: 00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Mon...

Reducere. A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets in...

"What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done we...

Reducere. Judy Juanita's poetry collection, Manhattan My Ass, You're in Oakland, won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2021. Jua...

Reducere. Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Second Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the s...

DescriptionIt passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize For prize-winning poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always ...

DescriptionPoetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freed...

Reducere. This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant,...

Reducere. From Homer to Wordsworth to Gwendolyn Brooks, learn about history's greatest writers and the furry best friends that inspired them.Dogs are at once...

Nikki Giovanni created this book by asking her friends--people like Gloria Naylor, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maxine Hong Kingston--for their stories an...