| Report from Part Two Contributor(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0883781646 ISBN-13: 9780883781647 Publisher: Third World Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: Report From Part Two is the second installment in the autobiography of Gwendolyn Brooks. In it, Brooks shares with her extended literary family her own family's gifts of words and wisdom. Report From Part Two, much like its companion volume Report From Part One, provides insightful, frank, and honest commentary on life, poetics and politics. In Report From Part Two, Brooks offers thoughts on the making of poetry and thoughts on contemporary poets and writers. This work includes the Jefferson Lecture, and her National Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96083057 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.73" W x 8.82" (0.91 lbs) 170 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Musings and notes about the life, the family, and travels of Gwendolyn Brooks that is a reprise of a prior book, Report from Part One, published by Broadside Press in 1972. Brooks was the Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986. This volume includes her introductions of visiting writers during that period. |