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A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun
The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
Author: Angela Jackson
Narrator: Janina Edwards
Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 11/08/2017
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Synopsis
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century and the first black person awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Over nearly six decades, her poetry showed complex portraits of black American life and served as witness to the stark realities of urban living. A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks's work and world and traces the literary arc of her long career, using forty-three of her most soul-stirring poems as a guide. It is a commemoration of a writer who negotiated black womanhood and incomparable brilliance with a changing, restless world-an artistic maverick ahead of her time.