Selected Poems: First African American Pulitzer Winner―Civil Rights, Black Life, and Humanity in 20th Century America (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Selected Poems gathers work centered on civil rights, Black life, and humanity in twentieth-century America. As the poetry of the first African American Pulitzer Prize winner, this Harper Perennial Modern Classic offers readers an important collection from a defining voice in American literature.
About This Book
Selected Poems presents the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, identified here as the first African American Pulitzer Prize winner.
This collection explores civil rights, Black life, and humanity in twentieth-century America.
Brooks’s poetry offers a literary perspective on American experience, social change, and the complexities of everyday life.
Published as a Harper Perennial Modern Classic, this volume introduces readers to a significant body of twentieth-century American poetry.
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