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Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
Contributor(s): Lansana, Quraysh Ali (Editor), Jackson-Opoku, Sandra (Editor)

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ISBN: 1940430860     ISBN-13: 9781940430867
Publisher: Curbside Splendor Publishing
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | American - African American
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Dewey: 808.803
LCCN: 2016958546
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (1.41 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 30
 
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In the hands of Gwendolyn Brooks, old age is a diamond with many facets. Throughout her poetry Brooks has illuminated old age as a time of isolation and withdrawal, remembrance and continuity, poverty, vulnerability, even homelessness, exploitation, neglect, abandonment, marginalization and destruction. And, yet, she offered resistance and affirmation.--Angela Jackson, award-winning poet and activist

The year 2017 marks the 100th birthday of the late poet and cultural icon Gwendolyn Brooks. Miss Brooks' depictions of poor and working class African Americans provides insight into the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and her lens on the Great Migration, hard and necessary truths about race injustice, and the Black Power movement interprets and contextualizes current racial inequities and tensions. This collection of poetry, essays, and art inspired by the work of Miss Brooks celebrates her life, writing, and activism.

Quraysh Ali Lansana is author or editor of twenty books. He is a faculty member of the Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002 to 2011.

Sandra Jackson-Opoku has authored two novels. The River Where Blood is Born earned the American Library Association Black Caucus Award for Best Fiction. Hot Johnny (and the Women Whom Loved Him) was an Essence magazine bestseller. Her fiction, poetry, articles, essays, and scripts have appeared the Los Angeles Times, Ms. magazine, the Literary Traveler, Islands Magazine, and elsewhere.


 
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