A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks / Angela Jackson.

Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her poetry took inspiration from the complex portrait...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jackson, Angela, 1951- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Brooks, Gwendolyn, > 1917-2000. Poets, American > 20th century > Biography. African American poets > Biography. African American poets. Poets, American. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. POETRY / American / African American. 1900-1999 Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies.
Physical Description:	204 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

"Grant me a voice, and speaking eyes"
Visionaries
A light and diplomatic bird
Hitting her stride
A Pulitzer is a smile
Black is beautiful
A surprised queenhood
Journeys
Blacks
Immortality of a kind.