Selected Poems [Paperback]

Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation.
   — Robert F. Kiernan

Selected Poemsis the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection showcases Brooks’ technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.

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.

“More than any other nationally acclaimed writer, Brooks has remained in touch with the community she writes about.”“Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation.”“From her poet’s craft bursts a whole gallery of wholly alive persons...Many a novelist cannot do so well in ten times the space.”“She is a very good poet, the only superlative I dare use in our time of misusage; compared...to the best of modern poets, she ranks high.”“When Miss Brooks...writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement.”“Miss Brooks has a very fine talent...a faculty which is becoming rare in contemporary poetry: an interest not merely in her own responses, but in other people as well.”