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In Montgomery and Other Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks Third World Press, October 2003 $22.95, ISBN 0-883-78232-4

When a beloved artist dies I always fantasize that there is something wonderful yet to come: a manuscript that was in progress, lost or hidden letters uncovered, secreted treatises, never-published juvenilia. So what a joy to discover that Gwendolyn Brooks left us In Montgomery. The book she was completing when she passed in 2000 is a collection of epics and shorter lyric poems that affirm her place as one of the most significant and masterful poets of the 20th century. The book gathers poems published in some of her smaller press books, Gottschalk and the ... 







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