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The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.

Brings together the best work from three earlier books now out of print, and includes poems not previously published in book form.

Editorial Reviews

Christian Science Monitor

From her poet's craft bursts a whole gallery of wholly alive persons...Many a novelist cannot do so well in ten times the space.

New York Times

When Miss Brooks...writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780060882969
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/3/2006
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 205,299
Series: P.S. Series
Product dimensions: 5.31 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.39 (d)

Meet the Author

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Annie Allen and one of the most celebrated African American poets. She was Poet Laureate for the state of Illinois, a National Women's Hall of Fame inductee, and a recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She received fifty honorary degrees. Her other books include a Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Maud Martha.

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A Street in Bronzeville

to David and Keziab Brooks

kitchenette building

We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. "Dream" makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like "rent," "feeding a wife," "satisfying a man."

But could a dream send up through onion fumes
Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes
And yesterday's garbage ripening in the hall,
Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms

Even if we were willing to let it in,
Had time to warm it, keep it very clean,
Anticipate a message, let it begin?

We wonder. But not well! not for a minute!
Since Number Five is out of the bathroom now,
We think of lukewarm water, hope to get in it.

	Kitchenette building	1
	The mother	2
	Hunchback girl : she thinks of heaven	3
	A song in the front yard	4
	The ballad of chocolate Mabbie	5
	The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon	6
	Sadie and Maud	6
	When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery	9
	The vacant lot	10
	The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith	10
	Negro hero	16
	Ballad of Pearl May Lee	18
	Gay chaps at the bar	23
	Still do I keep my look, my identity ...	23
	My dreams, my works, must wait till after hell	24
	Looking	25
	Mentors	25
	The white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men	26
	Love note / I : surely	26
	The progress	27
	The birth in a narrow room	28
	Maxie Allen	29
	The parents : people like our marriage : Maxie and Andrew	30
	Sunday chicken	30
	Old relative	31
	Downtown vaudeville	32
	The ballad of late Annie	32
	Throwing out the flowers	33
	"Do not be afraid of no"	34
	"Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps"	35
	My own sweet good	35
	The Anniad	36
	Appendix to The Anniad	47
I	The children of the poor	49
VI	The rites for cousin Vit	52
VII	I love those little booths at Benvenuti's	52
VIII	Beverly Hills, Chicago	54
XI	"One wants a teller in a time like this"	56
XV	"Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road"	57
	Strong men, riding horses	59
	The bean eaters	60
	We real cool	60
	Old Mary	61
	A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi : meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon	61
	The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till	68
	The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock	68
	The lovers of the poor	71
	The crazy woman	74
	A lovely love	75
	Bronzeville woman in a red hat	75
	Bessie of Bronzeville visits Mary and Norman at a beach-house in New Buffalo	78
	The ballad of Rudolph Reed	79
	The egg boiler	82
	A catch of shy fish	83
	Boy breaking glass	88
	Medgar Evers	89
	Malcom X	90
	The Chicago Picasso	91
	The wall	92
	The Blackstone rangers	94
	The sermon on the warpland	97
	The second sermon on the warpland	98
	Riot	100
	The third sermon on the warpland	101
	The life of Lincoln West	106
	To Don at Salaam	112
	Paul Robeson	113
	The boy died in my alley	114
	Steam song	116
	Elegy in a rainbow	117
	Primer for blacks	118
	To those of my sisters who kept their naturals	120
	The near-Johannesburg boy	122
	Shorthand possible	124
	Infirm	125
	The Coora flower	126
	Nineteen cows in a slow line walking	127
	I am a black	128
	Uncle Seagram	129
	Abruptly	131
	An old black woman, homeless, and indistinct	132

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Anonymous

Posted January 4, 2004

Nah

I like Gwendolyn Brooks. But I like poetry that tells a story more and this book didn't have much of it. My favorite poem was 'Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat' because it was more my style of poetry, a hidden story being revealed by every line. I just wasn't feeling the poetry in this book. It seemed a little dry. I love 'We Real Cool' and classics like that, but I don't feel this book showcased Brooks' ability to tell a story and recite a poem at the same time.
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Posted January 29, 2003

The best yet

This book is true to the core. It shows immotions in vivd color. No, not color of photographs but the color of words. She uses words in greater form than many other poets I know.
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Posted January 18, 2000

It's not wonder no living poet has been more honored

Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the masters of poetry. she is probably the greatest living poet, one of the best modern poets, and one of the better poets of all time. for anyone who loves poetry, their library shouldn't be without this volume.
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