{"product_id":"conversations-with-gwendolyn-brooks-paperback","title":"Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGloria Wade Gayles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConversations with Gwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A poem, she believed, comes from the heart. In each interview, she speaks from the heart and wins over the reader. The interviews took place in various settings-in radio recording studios and in university classrooms, in the coveted spotlight of a National Endowment for the Humanities celebration, and in the intimacy of her living room. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Regardless of place or audience, Brooks speaks with humility. She was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and to receive other coveted honors, and yet she sees herself as an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Brooks explains her experience within the creative process. She does not believe in a Muse. With gratitude to the Black Arts Movement, she celebrates both her blackness and the people in Bronzeville, the fictional community she created and whose lives she put down on paper. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Including interviews conducted by Studs Terkel and poet Haki Madhubuti, among others, \u003cem\u003eConversations with Gwendolyn Brooks\u003c\/em\u003e underscores the legacy of one of the nation's most brilliant and humane poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGloria Wade Gayles\u003c\/b\u003e is Eminent Scholar's Chair in Independent Study, Scholarship, and Service at Spelman College. She is author of several books including \"\u003ci\u003eMy Soul Is a Witness\" African American Women's Spirituality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Gender in Black Women's Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 167\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.04 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336804876537,"sku":"9781578065752","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/rjRV0MoDed9781578065752.webp?v=1769671254","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/conversations-with-gwendolyn-brooks-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}