The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
by Brooks, GwendolynFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-02-28
Publisher(s): RANDOM HOUSE
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Summary
Since she began publishing her tight lyrics of Chicago's South Side in the 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks took her place as one of the most influential American poets of the twentieth century, distilling modernist style through the sounds and shapes of a variety of African-American forms and idioms. Now, Elizabeth Alexander, one of our leading experts on African-American literature and culture, presents a sweeping new selection of Brooks's poetry that moves from her earliest work-including many of her important World War II poems-through the social and aesthetic upheavals of the 1960s up to her death in 2000.
Table of Contents
| Kitchenette building | p. 1 |
| The mother | p. 2 |
| Hunchback girl : she thinks of heaven | p. 3 |
| A song in the front yard | p. 4 |
| The ballad of chocolate Mabbie | p. 5 |
| The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon | p. 6 |
| Sadie and Maud | p. 6 |
| When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery | p. 9 |
| The vacant lot | p. 10 |
| The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith | p. 10 |
| Negro hero | p. 16 |
| Ballad of Pearl May Lee | p. 18 |
| Gay chaps at the bar | p. 23 |
| Still do I keep my look, my identity ... | p. 23 |
| My dreams, my works, must wait till after hell | p. 24 |
| Looking | p. 25 |
| Mentors | p. 25 |
| The white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men | p. 26 |
| Love note / I : surely | p. 26 |
| The progress | p. 27 |
| The birth in a narrow room | p. 28 |
| Maxie Allen | p. 29 |
| The parents : people like our marriage : Maxie and Andrew | p. 30 |
| Sunday chicken | p. 30 |
| Old relative | p. 31 |
| Downtown vaudeville | p. 32 |
| The ballad of late Annie | p. 32 |
| Throwing out the flowers | p. 33 |
| "Do not be afraid of no" | p. 34 |
| "Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps" | p. 35 |
| My own sweet good | p. 35 |
| The Anniad | p. 36 |
| Appendix to The Anniad | p. 47 |
| The children of the poor | p. 49 |
| The rites for cousin Vit | p. 52 |
| I love those little booths at Benvenuti's | p. 52 |
| Beverly Hills, Chicago | p. 54 |
| "One wants a teller in a time like this" | p. 56 |
| "Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road" | p. 57 |
| Strong men, riding horses | p. 59 |
| The bean eaters | p. 60 |
| We real cool | p. 60 |
| Old Mary | p. 61 |
| A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi : meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon | p. 61 |
| The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till | p. 68 |
| The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock | p. 68 |
| The lovers of the poor | p. 71 |
| The crazy woman | p. 74 |
| A lovely love | p. 75 |
| Bronzeville woman in a red hat | p. 75 |
| Bessie of Bronzeville visits Mary and Norman at a beach-house in New Buffalo | p. 78 |
| The ballad of Rudolph Reed | p. 79 |
| The egg boiler | p. 82 |
| A catch of shy fish | p. 83 |
| Boy breaking glass | p. 88 |
| Medgar Evers | p. 89 |
| Malcom X | p. 90 |
| The Chicago Picasso | p. 91 |
| The wall | p. 92 |
| The Blackstone rangers | p. 94 |
| The sermon on the warpland | p. 97 |
| The second sermon on the warpland | p. 98 |
| Riot | p. 100 |
| The third sermon on the warpland | p. 101 |
| The life of Lincoln West | p. 106 |
| To Don at Salaam | p. 112 |
| Paul Robeson | p. 113 |
| The boy died in my alley | p. 114 |
| Steam song | p. 116 |
| Elegy in a rainbow | p. 117 |
| Primer for blacks | p. 118 |
| To those of my sisters who kept their naturals | p. 120 |
| The near-Johannesburg boy | p. 122 |
| Shorthand possible | p. 124 |
| Infirm | p. 125 |
| The Coora flower | p. 126 |
| Nineteen cows in a slow line walking | p. 127 |
| I am a black | p. 128 |
| Uncle Seagram | p. 129 |
| Abruptly | p. 131 |
| An old black woman, homeless, and indistinct | p. 132 |
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