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Harper & Brothers. Publication date. October 1, 1949. Pages. 60. OCLC. 966612. Annie Allen is a book of poetry by American author Gwendolyn Brooks that was published by Harper & Brothers in 1949. The book tells in poetry about the life of Annie Allen, an African-American girl growing to adulthood.
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28 de ene. de 2021 · Annie Allen (1949) was Gwendolyn Brooks‘s second poetry collection, published by Harper & Brothers on August 24, 1949, when she was 32 years old. Inspired by the epic poetry of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid, it tells the story of a Black Chicago girl who grows into womanhood and motherhood.
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The poems in A Street in Bronzeville and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Annie Allen (Harper & Brothers, 1949) are “devoted to small, carefully cerebrated, terse portraits of the Black urban poor,”commented Richard K. Barksdale in Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1973).
Gwendolyn Brooks’ Annie Allen is a collection of poems that explores the life of a young black woman in Chicago during the early 20th century. The collection is a masterpiece of poetic storytelling, and it earned Brooks the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.
Brooks made history in 1950 by becoming the first African American recipient of a Pulitzer Prize. Annie Allen, the winning book of poetry, tells a story in three parts of a young African American woman coming into adulthood during World War I. With formal and technical precision, Annie Allen explores the title character’s struggles with love ...
25 de ago. de 2017 · Annie Allen is a 1949 collection of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, making her the first Black writer to receive this award. The poems don’t flinch from the violence and racism that are part of Annie’s milieu, and end with her hopes for a better world than the one she has inhabited.
