A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

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Angela Jackson
Beacon Press

A powerfully intimate look at Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, a once-in-a-lifetime talent, using forty-three of Brooks’s most soul-stirring poems as a guide. Jackson deftly unpacks it all for both longtime admirers of Brooks and newcomers curious about her interior life.

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