{"product_id":"9781931082877","title":"The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks : (American Poets Project #19) (American Poets Project)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize—now in one collectible volume\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"If you wanted a poem,\" wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, \"you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing.\" From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African-American cultural tradition, a poetry that registered the life of the streets and the upheavals of the 20th century. Starting with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks traces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"Her formal range,\" writes editor Elizabeth Alexander, \"is most impressive, as she experiments with sonnets, ballads, spirituals, blues, full and off-rhymes. She is nothing short of a technical virtuoso.\" That technical virtuosity was matched by a restless curiosity about the life around her in all its explosive variety. By turns compassionate, angry, satiric, and psychologically penetrating, Gwendolyn Brooks' poetry retains its power to move and surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e About the American Poets Project\n\u003cbr\u003e Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42498043281483,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":713.06,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9781931082877-1.jpg?v=1783483694","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9781931082877","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}