Whether quiet or outspoken, Brooks’ poetry brings home to the reader a tangibly real chunk of her perception, which is the true justification for her stature as a poet, more than the Pulitzer Prize awarded for her Annie Allen in 1950, her position as Poet Laureate of Illinois, or the other honors which she has received.īeginning in 1945 with A Street in Bronzeville, Gwendolyn Brooks has created a body of work which carries a telling statement of black experience. Gwendolyn Brooks’ voice in contemporary black poetry ranges from quiet sensitivity to fierce and angry protest, speaking from the perspective of a black woman in America. The poetic voice extends to the public the visions of the passionate mind.
