Posthumous jewels: Gwendolyn Brooks left us many rich words.(In Montgomery and Other Poems)(Book Review)

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In Montgomery and Other Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks Third World Press, October 2003 $22.95, ISBN 0-883-78232-4

When a beloved artist dies I always fantasize that there is something wonderful yet to come: a manuscript that was in progress, lost or hidden letters uncovered, secreted treatises, never-published juvenilia. So what a joy to discover that Gwendolyn Brooks left us In Montgomery. The book she was completing when she passed in 2000 is a collection of epics and shorter lyric poems that affirm her place as one of the most significant and masterful poets of the 20th century. ...

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