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Gwendolyn Brooks and Working Writers
by Jacqueline Bryant

    Publication Date: Jun 01, 2007
    List Price: $12.95
    Format: Paperback, 112 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780883782798
    Imprint: Third World Press
    Publisher: Third World Press
    Parent Company: Third World Press

    Paperback Description:

    Seventeen writers, educators, and close friends of the late poet contribute their praise through this collection of brief anecdotes from actual encounters with Gwendolyn Brooks. The contributors relate the poet’s influences on their art, their lives, and the world; expressing their indebtedness for the revolutionary language of her poems, her universal maternity, and her outstanding kindness. Some of Brook’s most influential poems are included such that this tribute keeps her words and wisdom alive.