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Annie Allen is a book of poetry by American author Gwendolyn Brooks that was published by Harper & Brothers in 1949. The book tells in poetry about the life of Annie Allen, an African-American girl growing to adulthood.
Jan 28, 2021 · Annie Allen (1949) was Gwendolyn Brooks‘s second poetry collection, published by Harper & Brothers on August 24, 1949, when she was 32 years old. Inspired by the epic poetry of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid, it tells the story of a Black Chicago girl who grows into womanhood and motherhood.
Aug 25, 2017 · A book review of Annie Allen, a 1949 collection of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize. The review covers the themes, forms, and context of the poems, especially the epic poem "The Anniad" that traces the life of a Black girl.
The poems in A Street in Bronzeville and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Annie Allen (Harper & Brothers, 1949) are “devoted to small, carefully cerebrated, terse portraits of the Black urban poor,”commented Richard K. Barksdale in Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1973).
Jan 1, 1972 · Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection Annie Allen in 1950, making her the first African American woman to win the illustrious award. A sequel to her Street Called Bronzeville, Annie Allen continues to describe in detail the African American experience during the late 1940s.
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Annie Allen is a collection of poems by African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, published in 1949. It features a long narrative poem, "The Anniad", about a woman's life in the ghetto, and explores themes of race, gender, and morality.
Annie Allen is a book of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1950. The poems tell the story of a young woman's life during World War I and explore themes of love, loss, and identity.
