Gwendolyn Brooks ist eine Autorin, deren Werke von einem tiefen Verständnis menschlicher Erfahrung und sozialer Gerechtigkeit geprägt sind. Ihre oft in städtischen Landschaften angesiedelte Poesie bietet lebendige Porträts des Alltags und setzt sich für die Rechte marginalisierter Gemeinschaften ein. Brooks verwendet eine kraftvolle und rhythmische Sprache, die die Musikalität und den Geist ihrer Charaktere widerspiegelt. Ihr literarisches Erbe inspiriert die Leser, über gesellschaftliche Fragen nachzudenken und die Schönheit im Gewöhnlichen zu schätzen.
Roman. Übersetzt von Andrea Ott, mit einem Nachwort von Daniel Schreiber - »Ich möchte, dass alle diesen vergessenen literarischen Schatz lesen!« Bernardine Evaristo
»Maud Martha Brown« von Gwendolyn Brooks erzählt das Leben einer jungen Schwarzen Frau in den 1920ern in Chicago. Zwischen Träumen von New York, erster Liebe und familiären Herausforderungen konfrontiert sie den allgegenwärtigen Rassismus. In eindringlichen Vignetten entsteht ein eindrucksvolles Porträt ihrer Welt.
“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.“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’s poetry retains its power to move and surprise.
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.
This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams of the children who live together in an urban neighborhood. In 1956, Gwendolyn Brooks created thirty-four poems that celebrated the joy, beauty, imagination, and freedom of childhood. Bronzeville Boys and Girls features these timeless poems, which remind us that whether we live in the Bronzeville section of Chicago or any other neighborhood, childhood is universal in its richness of emotions and new experiences.
This forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman's coming-of-age in 1940s Chicago. What, what, am I to do with all of this life? Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago.