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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Angela, 1951- author.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.

Brooks, Gwendolyn.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

African American poets--Biography.

African American poets.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 204 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]

Summary:

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century and was a protégé of Langston Hughes and a mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her work took inspiration from the complex portraits of black American life she observed growing up on Chicago's South Side, where she was encouraged by the likes of Hughes and affirmed by Richard Wright, who later called her work "raw and real." For over sixty years, Brooks's poetry served as witness to the stark realities of racism in America: the evils of lynching, the murders of Emmett Till and Malcolm X, the revolutionary effects of the civil rights movement, and the burgeoning power of the Black Arts Movement. Critical acclaim and the distinction in 1950 of being the first black person ever awarded a Pulitzer Prize helped solidify Brooks as a unique and powerful voice. Now, in A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun, fellow Chicagoan and award-winning poet Angela Jackson traces the literary are of Brooks's long career. Using forty-three of Brooks's most soul-stirring poems as a guide-along with unprecedented access to Brooks's family, personal papers, and writing community-Jackson provides a powerfully intimate look at this once-in-a-Iifetime talent, an artistic maverick way ahead of her time. Book jacket.

Contents:

"Grant Me a Voice, and Speaking Eyes"

Visionaries

A Light and Diplomatic Bid

Hitting Her Stride

A Pulitzer is a Smile

Black is Beautiful

A Surprised Queenhood

Journeys

Blacks

Immortality of a Kind.

Notes:

"Text design and composition by Kim Arney."

"Jacket design: Bob Kosturko."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Jackson, Angela, 1951- author. Surprised queenhood in the new black sun

ISBN:

9780807025048

0807025046

OCLC:

958097203