{"product_id":"the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks-american-poets-project-19-9781931082877","title":"The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (american Poets Project #19)","description":"\u003cb\u003eDiscover the most enduring works of legendary poet Gwendolyn Brooks--the first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize--in one collectible volume\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003ci\u003eA Street in Bronzeville\u003c\/i\u003e (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Gwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e traces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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's poetry retains its power to move and surprise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the American Poets Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931082877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.86h x 4.60w x 0.56d","brand":"Gwendolyn Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670845419676,"sku":"9781931082877","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0d3341d5-1113-46b5-92a3-2c521014940d.jpg?v=1603923772","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks-american-poets-project-19-9781931082877","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}