Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19) because there just might be

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over the last four centuries

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Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19) because there just might beDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize now in one collectible volume "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,