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Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

h1 April 16th, 2020 by jules



 

I’ve a review over at BookPage of Suzanne Slade’s Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks (Abrams, April 2020), illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera. That review is here.

And here today at 7-Imp are some illustrations from the book.

Enjoy!



 


“With too few jobs for too many workers, her father’s pay was cut in half.
Dinner each night was the same: beans.”
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“Hungry for food yet more hungry for words, Gwendolyn kept writing.
She sent more poems to magazines, but they were all rejected.”
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EXQUISITE: THE POETRY AND LIFE OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS. Text copyright © 2020 by Suzanne Slade. Illustrations © 2020 by Cozbi A. Cabrera and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Abrams Books for Young Readers, New York.





One comment to “Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks”

  1. I adore Cozbi’s paintings. So lyrical and magical!

         by Shadra April 16th, 2020 at 3:21 pm

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