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Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917–2000) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., Gwendolyn ( 1917–2000 ) African American poet who was born in Kansas but spent most of her life in Chicago. She began publishing poems in her teens and taught creative writing at a number of universities including Columbia and Wisconsin. At a writers’ conference in 1967 she announced her rediscovery of her blackness and the first major work to demonstrate this change was In the Mecca ( 1968 ), which uses free verse and reflects continuing influence from blues music. She published one novel, Maud Martha , in 1953 . See George A. Kent , A Life...
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Edward Butscher
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)
...for their ambitious reach, Brooks does best in terser, simpler efforts—in ‘The Empty Woman’ , for instance, a few Bronzeville portraits, and salutes to * Frost and Langston * Hughes . Her Selected Poems (Harper, 1963 ) contains important early work. In 1985 she served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the year before the post was renamed Poet Laureate. See also Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (University Press of Kentucky, 1989), by D. H. Melhem , and A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction , ed....
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
...the idea of self-help activism. See also African American Literature and Poetry . Nancy L. Huse Brooks, Gwendolyn . Report from Part One . Detroit, Mich.: Broadside, 1972. Brooks, Gwendolyn . Report from Part Two . Chicago: Third World, 1996. Flynn, Richard . “ ‘Kindergarten of New Consciousness’: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Social Construction of Childhood.” African American Review 34, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 483–499. Kent, George E. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks . Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,...
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
...Near-Johannesburg Boy ( 1986 ), and Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle ( 1988 ). Brooks is also the author of the novel Maud Martha ( 1953 ), which deals with a young black woman's struggle against racial discrimination, and the impressionistic autobiography of Report from Part One ( 1972 ). Representative editions of her work are Selected Poems ( 1963 ) and the miscellany entitled The World of Gwendolyn Brooks ( 1971 ). G. E. Kent's A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks appeared in 1990...
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Ann Folwell Stanford
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
...many outreach and awards programs throughout the United States. R. Baxter Miller , Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks: A Reference Guide (1978). Harry B. Shaw , Gwendolyn Brooks (1980). D. H. Melhem , Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (1987). Maria K. Mootry and Gary Smith , eds., A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction (1987). George E. Kent , A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks (1990). D. H. Melhem , Gwendolyn Brooks in Heroism in the New Black Poetry (1990) pp. 11–38. Ann Folwell...
Brooks, Gwendolyn (7 June 1917) Reference library
Black Women in America (2 ed.)
.... Bibliography Brooks, Gwendolyn . Report from Part One . Detroit, MI: Broadside, 1972. Brooks, Gwendolyn . Report from Part Two . Chicago: Third World, 1995. Gwendolyn Brooks at Poetry Exhibits, Academy of American Poets. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C07030F . Cape, Steve . A Conversation with Gwendolyn Brooks at Artful Dodg online. http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/interviews/brooks.htm . Kent, George . Gwendolyn Brooks: A Life . Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. McLendon, Jacquelyn . Gwendolyn Brooks. In ...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., Gwendolyn ( 1917–2000 ) African American poet who began publishing poems in her teens and taught creative writing at a number of universities. At a writers’ conference in 1967 she announced her rediscovery of her blackness and the first major work to demonstrate this change was In the Mecca ( 1968 ), which uses free verse and reflects continuing influence from blues music. She published one novel, Maud Martha , in 1953...
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Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
..., Gwendolyn ( b. 7 June 1917 ; d. 3 December 2000 ), poet and community activist . Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, to David Anderson Brooks , a janitor, and Keziah Wims Brooks , a former schoolteacher. The house in Kansas belonged to Brooks's grandmother, and soon the family moved to their home in Chicago, Illinois, where Gwendolyn grew up in the city's South Side with her parents and younger brother, Raymond . For most of her life she remained associated with the South Side. Brooks attended Forrestville Elementary School, and it was...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (2 ed.)
..., Gwendolyn ( 1917–2000 ) , influential Black poet born in Topeka, Kansas, and raised in Chicago, Illinois, whose works depict the everyday experiences of urban African Americans. As a writer, Brooks came to be known not only for her widely read corpus but also for spreading awareness of racial discrimination. Brooks established a passion and talent for poetry early in life; her first published poem, “Eventide,” (1930) appeared in American Childhood when she was 13. Annie Allen (1949), a verse narrative about a Black girl’s life to maturity in World...
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Paulette Childress
The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
..., Gwendolyn ( 1917–2000 ), poet and novelist . Gwendolyn Brooks was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, to Keziah and David Brooks . When she was an infant, the family moved to Chicago, where Brooks resided until her death on 3 December 2000 . Chicago's South Side became Brooks's lifelong home, and its diverse black community served as a source of literary inspiration for her. Brooks graduated from Wilson Junior College in 1936 . Two years later, she met Henry Blakely , whom she married in 1939 . The couple had two children, a son, Henry III...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
...of everybody—including the lowliest among us. In 1994 , Gwendolyn Brooks received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and was named by the National Endowment for the Humanities as its Jefferson Lecturer. Gwendolyn Brooks , Report from Part One, 1972. Maria K. Mootry and Gary Smith , eds., A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction, 1987. George E. Kent , A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1990. Stephen Caldwell Wright , ed., On Gwendolyn Brooks: Reliant Contemplations, 1996. Kenny Jackson...
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
..., Gwendolyn ( 1917–2000 ), poet reared in Chicago's slums, whose works include A Street in Bronzeville ( 1945 ), lyrics; Annie Allen ( 1949 , Pulitzer Prize), a verse narrative about a black girl's life to maturity in World War II, treating her race's isolation as both spiritual and social; The Bean Eaters ( 1960 ), about contemporary black life in the U.S.; and Selected Poems ( 1963 ). Later volumes of poetry, more militant in tone but continuing to treat the lives and problems of blacks, include In the Mecca ( 1968 ), Riot ( 1969 ), Family...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
...of Brooks in the context of a women's tradition. Kent, George . Gwendolyn Brooks: A Life . Lexington, Ky., 1990. The first full-length biography by a scholar of the Black Arts era. Madhubuti, Haki R. Say That the River Turns: The Impact of Gwendolyn Brooks . Chicago, 1987. An analysis of Brooks's work by one of the principal Black Aestheticians in Chicago. Mootry, Maria K. and Gary Smith , eds. A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction . Urbana, Ill., 1987. A comprehensive collection of essays that touches all periods of Brooks's...
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
...Gwendolyn Brooks 1917 – 2000 Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. Exhaust the Little Moment , in Annie Allen ,...
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Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0Gwendolyn Gwendolyn Brooks 1917 – 2000 American poet Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise. ‘Exhaust the little moment’ (1949) exhaust the little moment Exhaust the little moment be it gash or gold this identical disguise Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get… ‘The Mother’ (1945) abortions will not let remember the children you got remember the children you...
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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...0Gwendolyn Gwendolyn Brooks 1917 – 2000 American poet Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise. ‘Exhaust the little moment’ (1949) exhaust the little moment Exhaust the little moment be it gash or gold be it gash or gold this identical disguise Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get… ‘The Mother’ (1945) abortions will not let remember the children you got remember the children you got The time cracks into furious...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3 ed.)
...0Gwendolyn Gwendolyn Brooks 1917 – 2000 American poet Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise. ‘Exhaust the little moment’ (1949) exhaust the little moment Exhaust the little moment this identical disguise Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get… ‘The Mother’ (1945) abortions will not let remember the children you got remember the children you got The time cracks into furious flower. Lifts its face all unashamed. And...
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