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Edited by Mildred R. Mickle, Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Greater Allegheny, this volume examines Brooks's work from myriad perspectives. Mickle's introduction reflects on Brooks's legacy, locating her work as a bridge between the poets of the Harlem Renaissance and the poets of the black arts movement. Jascha Hoffman of The Paris Review then remembers his first encounter with Brooks's work and celebrates her achievement of carefully balancing craft with politics. Four original essays by Kathy Rugoff, Martin Kich, Matthew Bolton, and Robert C. Evans offer valuable context to readers new to Brooks and her work. Rugoff explores how the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights, black power, and black arts movements all influenced Brooks's work with close readings of selections from A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, The Bean Eaters, In the Mecca, Riot, and Family Pictures. Kich provides a survey of the major pieces of Brooks's criticism, noting common foci like race, poetics, gender, literary influences, and Brooks's novel Maud Martha. Bolton demonstrates Brooks's mastery and revision of traditional poetic forms by locating her "The Anniad" and "Riders to the Blood-r

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Author

Mildred R. Mickle (Editor)

Publisher

Salem Press, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587656323

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Poetry, Memoir, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14