The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Format:Hardcover cracks begin to show in

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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Format:Hardcover cracks begin to show inDiscover the most enduring works of legendary poet Gwendolyn Brooksthe first black author to win a Pulitzer Prizein one collectible volume "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