[New-Poetry] Gwendolyn Brooks

[David Graham]

I've been catching up on the Poetry Foundation site this morning  
(obviously).  If, like me, you haven't been there recently, you might  
like to know that they're adding content at an amazing rate.  Just  
goes to show what a hundred million dollars can do. . . .

Among other things, I recommend the review of the new Gwendolyn  
Brooks selected poems in the invaluable American Poets Project series  
from Library of America.  It's in *Poetry* but also posted on the web  
site.  Elizabeth Alexander edited the Brooks volume, and Danielle  
Chapman reviews it.

http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/1006/comment_178686.html

This book of Brooks's work has to be one of the most welcome, most  
overdue collections in many years.  I hope it will finally displace  
the inadequate 1963 selected in everyone's collection.  And perhaps  
lure readers to explore Brooks beyond "We Real Cool."

Alexander does a fabulous job of presenting Brooks at her best, I  
think--though I greatly regret the omission of her long poem "In the  
Mecca," title piece of a long-out-of-print 1968 volume.  It's missing  
only due to length, Alexander reports in her introduction.

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