Item No: #36739 Very Young Poets. Gwendolyn Brooks.
Very Young Poets
Very Young Poets
Very Young Poets

Pulitzer Prize Winner Offers Writing Advice to Children

Very Young Poets

Publication: Chicago, IL: Brooks Press, 1983. First Edition.

Notes: Twenty short pieces of advice for young poets followed by eight poems for children. This 32-page chapbook was self-published by the Pulitzer Prize-winner. Brooks was the first African American writer to win the award.

5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). Edges tanned and fore-edge trimmed at an angle, thus a very good copy in printed, stapled wrappers (pamphlet). Signed by Brooks on the title page, with a card advertising other books from her press laid in.

Item No: #36739

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