The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Lifestyle to a place of flourishing

to a place of flourishing and peace—made possible above all by a family’s loveGrant Hill always had game

Watkins discovers a love for books

was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin

Then he must overcome his fear of the monstrous vacuum cleaner

Herbert’s astute observations about human nature in extremis feel like the reader’s own revelations

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Lifestyle to a place of flourishingDiscover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prizenow in one collectible volumeIf you wanted a poem, wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing. From the life of Chicagos South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African American cultural tradition, a