In The Mecca Poems By Gwendolyn Brooks
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In The Mecca
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Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1968
In The Mecca written by Gwendolyn Brooks and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with African American families categories.
This was the Pulitzer Prize-winner's first new collection of poetry after a gap of nearly ten years. "I was to be a Watchful Eye; a Tuned Ear; a Super-reporter," Brooks said. "I began writing about whatever I thought I knew, whatever I experienced." What she knew and experienced in those years resulted in poetry charged with a new power and urgency. The book takes its title from a long narrative poem set in a huge decayed apartment house in Chicago's black ghetto, a building called the Mecca. A tragedy in the Mecca gives rise to Brooks' extraordinary poetic evocation of its dense personal miseries and sense of life. Nine shorter poems follow, and these too, in large part, have their source in contemporary figures and circumstances: Medgar Evers and Malcolm X, "the Blackstone Rangers gang," the astonishing prideful mural painted on a ghetto wall one summer. The universality that transcends the immediate event, and is the mark of poetic sensibility, distinguishes all the poetry here. Gwendolyn Brooks' stature as a poet who "induces almost unbearable excitement"--As Phyllis McGinley described her--is here enriched by the new dimensions her work encompasses.--Adapted from book jacket.
In The Mecca Poems By Gwendolyn Brooks
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Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
In The Mecca Poems By Gwendolyn Brooks written by Gwendolyn Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
Contains a long narrative poem reflecting life in Chicago's Negroghetto and 9 shorter poems based on contemporary figures and events.
Into The Mecca Poems
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Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Into The Mecca Poems written by Gwendolyn Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
After Mecca
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Author : Cheryl Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2005
After Mecca written by Cheryl Clarke and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In "After Mecca," Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement and black women writers of the period. Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Alice Walker, and others chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation. Clarke also traces the contributions of these poets to the development of feminism and lesbian-feminism, and the legacy they left for others to build on.
In The Mecca
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Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
In The Mecca written by Gwendolyn Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
Selected Poems
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Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1963
Selected Poems written by Gwendolyn Brooks and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contains a selection of poems from three earlier books: "A Street in Bronzeville," "Annie Allen," and "The Bean Eaters" as well as some new selections.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Author : D.H. Melhem
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Gwendolyn Brooks written by D.H. Melhem and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the major American poets of this century and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1950). Yet far less critical attention has focused on her work than on that of her peers. In this comprehensive biocritical study, Melhem -- herself a poet and critic -- traces the development of Brooks's poetry over four decades, from such early works as A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, and The Bean Eaters, to the more recent In the Mecca, Riot, and To Disembark. In addition to analyzing the poetic devices used, Melhem examines the biographical, historical, and literary contexts of Brooks's poetry: her upbringing and education, her political involvement in the struggle for civil rights, her efforts on behalf of young black poets, her role as a teacher, and her influence on black letters. Among the many sources examined are such revealing documents as Brooks's correspondence with her editor of twenty years and with other writers and critics. From Melhem's illuminating study emerges a picture of the poet as prophet. Brooks's work, she shows, is consciously charged with the quest for emancipation and leadership, for black unity and pride. At the same time, Brooks is seen as one of the preeminent American poets of this century, influencing both African American letters and American literature generally. This important book is an indispensable guide to the work of a consummate poet.
Religious Allusion In The Poetry Of Gwendolyn Brooks
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Author : Margot Harper Banks
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-02
Religious Allusion In The Poetry Of Gwendolyn Brooks written by Margot Harper Banks and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines how Gwendolyn Brooks, a self-proclaimed nonreligious person, advocates adherence to Christian ideals through religious allusions in her poetry. The discussion integrates Brooks' words, biographical data, commentary by other scholars, scriptural references, and doctrinal tenets. It identifies biblical figures and events and highlights Brooks' effective use of the sermon genre, and her express parallels between Christianity and Democracy. The work opens with a biographical chapter and Brooks' comments on religion, followed by analyses of her long poems, and more than thirty of her short ones. An illuminating interview with Nora Brooks Blakely about Brooks' religious background and philosophy is included.
In Montgomery And Other Poems
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Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-07
In Montgomery And Other Poems written by Gwendolyn Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with Poetry categories.
Reproduction of page proofs, chiefly dated 6 May 2003 at top of each leaf (some dated 7 May 2003).
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
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Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
language : en
Publisher: American Poets Project
Release Date : 2005-11-17
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks written by Gwendolyn Brooks and has been published by American Poets Project this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-17 with Fiction categories.
Presents more than eighty poems spanning the career of twentieth-century African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, which explore life on Chicago's south side.