Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks

by Gwendolyn Brooks

Book Overview

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks features sparkling interviews with one of America's most valued poets. Throughout this book, which spans three decades, Brooks (1917-2000) speaks with simplicity, depth, candor, and passion about the making of a poem and about the position of the poet in humane society.

A poem, she believed, comes from the heart. In each interview, she speaks from the heart and wins over the reader. The interviews...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578065755
• ISBN13: 9781578065752
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"