{"id":5083,"date":"2020-04-16T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2020-04-15T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T18:50:35","slug":"exquisite-the-poetry-and-life-of-gwendolyn-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5083","title":{"rendered":"Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI’ve a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Suzanne Slade’s<\/a><\/strong> Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks<\/em> (Abrams, April 2020), illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera<\/a><\/strong>. That review is here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

And here today at 7-Imp are some illustrations from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“With too few jobs for too many workers, her father’s pay was cut in half.
Dinner each night was the same: beans.”<\/em>
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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.”<\/em>
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EXQUISITE: THE POETRY AND LIFE OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS. Text copyright \u00a9 2020 by Suzanne Slade. Illustrations \u00a9 2020 by Cozbi A. Cabrera and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Abrams Books for Young Readers, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}