We Real Cool

We Real Cool
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 0415969271
ISBN-13 : 9780415969277
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis We Real Cool by : Bell Hooks

Discusses what black males fear most, their longing for intimacy, the pitfalls of patriarchy, and the destruction of oppression through redemption and love.

Pipeline

Pipeline
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Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Total Pages : 72
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ISBN-10 : 9780573706813
ISBN-13 : 0573706816
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Pipeline by : Dominique Morisseau

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
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Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Total Pages : 176
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0060882964
ISBN-13 : 9780060882969
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Selected Poems by : Gwendolyn Brooks

The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.

We Real Cool

We Real Cool
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1432449350
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Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis We Real Cool by : Gwendolyn Brooks

The Golden Shovel Anthology

The Golden Shovel Anthology
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages : 341
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781682260951
ISBN-13 : 168226095X
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Golden Shovel Anthology by : Terrance Hayes

“The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.

A Street in Bronzeville

A Street in Bronzeville
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Publisher : Library of America
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 9781598533811
ISBN-13 : 1598533819
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis A Street in Bronzeville by : Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the forerunner of the U.S. Poet Laureate. Here, in an exclusive Library of America E-Book Classic edition, is her groundbreaking first book of poems, a searing portrait of Chicago’s South Side. “I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street,” she later said. “There was my material.”

The Bean Eaters;

The Bean Eaters;
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Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Total Pages : 80
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ISBN-10 : 1014197864
ISBN-13 : 9781014197863
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bean Eaters; by : Gwendolyn 1917- Brooks

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Favorite Poems

Favorite Poems
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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0486417816
ISBN-13 : 9780486417813
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Favorite Poems by : Emily Dickinson

A large-print collection of more than one hundred poems by nineteenth-century American author Emily Dickinson, including "Wild Nights!", "The Chariot," and "The Battlefield."

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 196
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1578065755
ISBN-13 : 9781578065752
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks by : Gwendolyn Brooks

A collection of interviews which help chronicle the life and career of African-American author Gwendolyn Brooks.

An American Sunrise: Poems

An American Sunrise: Poems
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 129
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781324003878
ISBN-13 : 1324003871
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis An American Sunrise: Poems by : Joy Harjo

A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings.