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GWENDOLYN BROOKS - INSCRIBED BOOK SIGNED 11/07/1987 - HFSID 288505

Soft cover edition of her poetry collection Riot, inscribed on the title page Book inscribed and signed: "For Jon Allan/Sincerely/Gwendolyn Brooks/November 7, 1987", 5½x8½, 24 pages, soft cover. Riot, by Gwendolyn Brooks. Detroit, Michigan: Broadside Press, 1969.

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GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Soft cover edition of her poetry collection Riot, inscribed on the title page
Book inscribed and signed: "For Jon Allan/Sincerely/Gwendolyn Brooks/November 7, 1987", 5½x8½, 24 pages, soft cover. Riot, by Gwendolyn Brooks. Detroit, Michigan: Broadside Press, 1969.  Signed on the title page. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her second book of poetry, Annie Allen, becoming the first Black author to receive the honor. Her poetry, which was first published in 1945, later focused on the African-American struggle for freedom. In 1968, Brooks was named Poet Laureate of Illinois, succeeding Carl Sandburg. Brooks had married poet and writer Henry Blakely in 1939, to whom she was wed until his death in 1996. Riot, a poem in three parts, arose from the demonstrations which followed the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. Corners and edges lightly worn. Otherwise, fine condition.

 

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