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Gwendolyn Brooks : poetry & the heroic voice / D.H. Melhem.
Van Pelt Library PS3503.R7244 Z76 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melhem, D. H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.
- Brooks, Gwendolyn.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- African American poets--Biography.
- African American poets.
- African Americans in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 270 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
- Contents:
- Biographical
- A Street in Bronzeville
- Annie Allen
- Maud Martha, Bronzeville Boys and Girls
- The Bean Eaters
- Selected Poems
- In the Mecca
- Riot, Family Pictures, Aloneness
- Later Works (In Montgomery, Report from Part One, The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, Beckonings, Primer for Blacks, To Disembark, Very Young Poets)
- A Major Poet.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1987 by D. H. Melhem"--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.
- 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:
- 0813116058 :
- OCLC:
- 123209929
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