{"product_id":"conversations-with-gwendolyn-brooks-gloria-wade-gayles-9781578065752","title":"Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gloria Wade Gayles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578065755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578065752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.05w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2003 pg. 106","brand":"Gloria Wade Gayles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939740352767,"sku":"9781578065752","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f8a469a7-7095-4cd5-a2ff-0e920ebe082e.jpg?v=1681443219","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-gwendolyn-brooks-gloria-wade-gayles-9781578065752","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}