# The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

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- Book: [The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks](https://www.bookquiver.com/gwendolyn-brooks/the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks) ([The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gwendolyn-brooks/the-essential-gwendolyn-brooks.md))
- Authors: [Gwendolyn Brooks](https://www.bookquiver.com/gwendolyn-brooks), [Elizabeth Alexander](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-alexander)
- Publisher: library_of_america
- ISBN: 978-19-3108-287-7
- Pages: 174
- Published: 2005-11-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize—now in one collectible volume “If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you...