SELECTED POEMS
by Brooks, GwendolynEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-03-12
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet and winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize that represents her technical mastery, her compassionate and illuminating response to a world that is both special and universal, and her warm humanity.
Table of Contents
| A Street in Bronzeville | p. 3 |
| kitchenette building | p. 3 |
| the mother | p. 4 |
| southeast corner | p. 5 |
| hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven | p. 5 |
| a song in the front yard | p. 6 |
| the ballad of chocolate Mabbie | p. 7 |
| the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon | p. 8 |
| Sadie and Maud | p. 8 |
| the independent man | p. 9 |
| of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery | p. 10 |
| the vacant lot | p. 11 |
| The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith | p. 12 |
| Negro Hero | p. 19 |
| gay chaps at the bar | p. 22 |
| still do I keep my look, my identity ... | p. 23 |
| my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell | p. 23 |
| looking | p. 24 |
| piano after war | p. 24 |
| mentors | p. 25 |
| the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men | p. 25 |
| firstly inclined to take what it is told | p. 26 |
| "God works in a mysterious way" | p. 27 |
| love note I: surely | p. 27 |
| love note II: flags | p. 28 |
| the progress | p. 28 |
| Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood | p. 33 |
| Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes | p. 33 |
| Chicken, she chided early, should not wait | p. 33 |
| After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead | p. 34 |
| Late Annie in her bower lay | p. 34 |
| The duck fats rot in the roasting pan | p. 35 |
| "Do not be afraid of no" | p. 36 |
| But can see better there, and laughing there | p. 37 |
| Think of sweet and chocolate | p. 38 |
| You need the untranslatable ice to watch | p. 50 |
| The Certainty we two shall meet by God | p. 51 |
| Oh mother, mother, where is happiness | p. 51 |
| The Womanhood | p. 52 |
| People who have no children can be hard | p. 52 |
| What shall I give my children? who are poor | p. 53 |
| And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray? | p. 53 |
| First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string | p. 54 |
| When my dears die, the festival-colored brightness | p. 54 |
| Life for my child is simple, and is good | p. 55 |
| Sweet Sally took a cardboard box | p. 56 |
| A light and diplomatic bird | p. 57 |
| Carried her unprotesting out the door | p. 58 |
| They get to Benvenuti's. There are booths | p. 59 |
| The dry brown coughing beneath their feet | p. 61 |
| And if sun comes | p. 62 |
| One wants a Teller in a time like this | p. 63 |
| People protest in sprawling lightless ways | p. 64 |
| Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road | p. 65 |
| In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father | p. 69 |
| My Little 'Bout-town Gal | p. 70 |
| Strong Men, Riding Horses | p. 71 |
| The Bean Eaters | p. 72 |
| We Real Cool | p. 73 |
| Old Mary | p. 74 |
| A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon | p. 75 |
| The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till | p. 81 |
| Mrs. Small | p. 82 |
| Jessie Mitchell's Mother | p. 85 |
| The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock | p. 87 |
| The Lovers of the Poor | p. 90 |
| A Sunset of the City | p. 94 |
| A Man of the Middle Class | p. 96 |
| The Crazy Woman | p. 99 |
| Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Back | p. 100 |
| A Lovely Love | p. 101 |
| A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary | p. 102 |
| Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat | p. 103 |
| In Emanuel's Nightmare: Another Coming of Christ | p. 107 |
| The Ballad of Rudolph Reed | p. 110 |
| Riders to the Blood-red Wrath | p. 115 |
| The Empty Woman | p. 119 |
| To Be in Love | p. 120 |
| Of Robert Frost | p. 122 |
| Langston Hughes | p. 123 |
| A Catch of Shy Fish | p. 124 |
| garbageman: the man with the orderly mind | p. 124 |
| sick man looks at flowers | p. 124 |
| old people working (garden, car) | p. 125 |
| weaponed woman | p. 125 |
| old tennis player | p. 125 |
| a surrealist and Omega | p. 126 |
| Spaulding and Francois | p. 126 |
| Big Bessie throws ber son into the street | p. 127 |
| About Gwendolyn Brooks | p. 129 |
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