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Angela Jackson is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. Her numerous collections of poetry include It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time and the National Book Award-nominated And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems Selected and New. She is also the author of two novels-the American Book mostrar mais Award-winning Where I Must Go and Roads, Where There Are No Roads. She lives in Chicago. mostrar menos
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The 100 Best African American Poems (2010) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (2016) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Mississippi Writers: An Anthology (1991) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
360: A Revolution of Black Poets (1998) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares

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Marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this biography and literary commentary on Gwendolyn Brooks and her poetry is outstanding. She was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (in 1950) and worked tirelessly throughout her life to bring attention to the Black community, its arts and people and to help instill in young people a pride in their race--Black Power before it became so popular in the 1960's. She was particularly eloquent as a spokesperson for Black women, the pressures and troubles of discrimination and sexism. It is great to have the new biography.… (mais)
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9
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80
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#224,854
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
1
ISBN
39
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2

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