{"product_id":"9781940430867","title":"Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In the hands of Gwendolyn Brooks, old age is a diamond with many facets. Throughout her poetry Brooks has illuminated old age as a time of isolation and withdrawal, remembrance and continuity, poverty, vulnerability, even homelessness, exploitation, neglect, abandonment, marginalization and destruction. And, yet, she offered resistance and affirmation.\"—Angela Jackson, award-winning poet and activist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year 2017 marks the 100th birthday of the late poet and cultural icon Gwendolyn Brooks. Miss Brooks' depictions of poor and working class African Americans provides insight into the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and her lens on the Great Migration, hard and necessary truths about race injustice, and the Black Power movement interprets and contextualizes current racial inequities and tensions. This collection of poetry, essays, and art inspired by the work of Miss Brooks celebrates her life, writing, and activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eQuraysh Ali Lansana \u003c\/b\u003e is author or editor of twenty books. He is a faculty member of the Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002 to 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSandra Jackson-Opoku \u003c\/b\u003e has authored two novels. \u003ci\u003eThe River Where Blood is Born \u003c\/i\u003e earned the American Library Association Black Caucus Award for Best Fiction. \u003ci\u003eHot Johnny (and the Women Whom Loved Him) \u003c\/i\u003e was an \u003ci\u003eEssence \u003c\/i\u003e magazine bestseller. Her fiction, poetry, articles, essays, and scripts have appeared the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eMs. \u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the \u003ci\u003eLiterary Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eIslands Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e , and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curbside Splendor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039913296112,"sku":"9781940430867","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940430867_p0.jpg?v=1763791355","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940430867","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}