Selected Poems

This new volume by a distinguished modern poet, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, brings together the best of her work from three earlier books now out of print (A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, The Bean Eaters) and includes a section of new poems which have not appeared before in book form. Selected Poems reaffirms impressively Miss Brooks's rich and varied gifts - her technical mastery, her compassionate, illuminating response to a world that is both special and universal, her...