This novel is a combination of science fiction, moral fable and bizarre love story. It involves strange little creatures growing in a barren garden, who are a kind of microcosm for our society.

Blight

Literature & Fiction

Melhem, D.H.

History & Criticism

Riverrun Pr

Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the major American poets of this century and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1950). Yet far less critical attention has focused on her work than on that of her peers. In this comprehensive biocritical study, Melhem―herself a poet and critic―traces the development of Brooks's poetry over four decades, from such early works as A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, and The Bean Eaters, to the more recent In the Mecca, Riot, and To Disembark. In addition to analyzing the poetic devices used, Melhem examines the biographical, historical, and literary contexts of Brooks's poetry: her upbringing and education, her political involvement in the struggle for civil rights, her efforts on behalf of young black poets, her role as a teacher, and her influence on black letters. Among the many sources examined are such revealing documents as Brooks's correspondence with her editor of twenty years and with other writers and critics. From Melhem's illuminating study emerges a picture of the poet as prophet. Brooks's work, she shows, is consciously charged with the quest for emancipation and leadership, for black unity and pride. At the same time, Brooks is seen as one of the preeminent American poets of this century, influencing both African American letters and American literature generally. This important book is an indispensable guide to the work of a consummate poet.

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University Press of Kentucky

D.H. Melhem's clear introductions and frank interviews provide insight into the contemporary social and political consciousness of six acclaimed poets: Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, Dudley Randall, and Sonia Sanchez. Since the 1960s, the poet hero has characterized a significant segment of Black American poetry. The six poets interviewed here have participated in and shaped the vanguard of this movement. Their poetry reflects the critical alternatives of African American life―separatism and integration, feminism and sexual identity, religion and spirituality, humanism and Marxism, nationalism and internationalism. They unite in their commitment to Black solidarity and advancement.

Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews (Introductions & Interviews)

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice [hardcover] Melhem, D.H. [Feb 01, 1987]

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry & the heroic voice

Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews

Univ Pr of Kentucky

Rest in Love (Occasional Books Series)

Poetry

Confrontation Pr Liu

Rest in Love

Dramas & Plays

Dovetail Pr Ltd

Reaching Excercises : The IWWG Workshop Book

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Poetry. "From the Hollywood Hills to Nairobi, from Palestine to the World Trade Center, and not least from the locality of the human heart, D. H. Melhem brings her observant eye to journeys both inward and outward. Her family stories are skillfully told elegies and praise poems for both contemporary and legendary women. A visionary with an ingrained sense of history, this poet's deep concern is social justice, but her love of visual beauty will not be denied"--Colette Inez. "D. H. Melhem is one of our brilliant contemporary talents"--Gwendolyn Brooks.

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