A Life distilled : Gwendolyn Brooks, her poetry and fiction / edited by Maria K. Mootry, Gary Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mootry, Maria, editor.

Smith, Gary, 1949- editor.

University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Press, publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000--Criticism and interpretation.

Brooks, Gwendolyn.

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

African Americans in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix unnumbered pages, 286 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Contents:

"Madimba: Gwendolyn Brooks" / Michael S. Harper

"Down the whirlwind of good rage": an introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks / Maria K. Mootry

1. "That mad demi-art": general assessment: The achievement of Gwendolyn Brooks / Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Aesthetic values in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks / George E. Kent

The world of Satin-legs, Mrs. Sallie, and the Blackstone Rangers: the restricted Chicago of Gwendolyn Brooks / Kenny J. Williams

The poet-militant and foreshadowings of a Black mystique: poems in the second period of Gwendolyn Brooks / William H. Hansell

Gwendolyn Brooks and a Black aesthetic / Norris B. Clark

"Does man love art?": the humanistic aesthetic of Gwendolyn Brooks / R. Baxter Miller

2. "A brisk contour": analysis of the poetry: Songs after sunset (1935-36): the unpublished poetry of Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks / Erlene Stetson

Paradise regained: the children of Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville / Gary Smith

Anger so flat: Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Claudia Tate

The women of Bronzeville / Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Gwendolyn Brooks's "Children of the poor", metaphysical poetry and the inconditions of love / Gary Smith

"Tell it Slant": disguise and discovery as revisionist poetic discourse in The bean eaters / Maria K. Mootry

Community and voice: Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the mecca" / Gayl Jones

The ballads of Gwendolyn Brooks / Gladys Williams

Gwendolyn the terrible: propositions on eleven poems / Hortense J. Spillers.

3. "Daughter of the dusk": Maud Martha. Nuance and the novella: a study of Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha / Barbara Christian

Maud Martha: the war with beauty / Harry B. Shaw.

Notes:

"©1987 by the Board of trustees of the University of Illinois"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0252013670

OCLC:

13703259