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Selected Poems

by Brooks, Gwendolyn

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9780060882969

ISBN10:

0060882964

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Pub. Date:

11/17/2009

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HarperCollins Publications

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Summary

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.

A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE

A Street in Bronzeville

(9)

kitchenette building

(1)

the mother

(1)

southeast corner

(1)

hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven

(1)

a song in the front yard

(1)

the ballad of chocolate Mabbie

(1)

the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon

(1)

Sadie and Maud

(1)

the independent man

(1)

of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery

(1)

the vacant lot

(1)

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith

(7)

Negro Hero

(14)

Gay Chaps at the Bar

(11)

gay chaps at the bar

(1)

still do I keep my look, my identity...

(1)

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell

(1)

looking

(1)

piano after war

(1)

mentors

(1)

the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men

(1)

firstly inclined to take what it is told

(1)

"God works in a mysterious way"

(1)

love note I: surely

(1)

love note II: flags

(1)

the progress

(5)

ANNIE ALLEN

Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood

(5)

Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes

(1)

Chicken, she chided early, should not wait

(1)

After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead

(1)

Late Annie in her bower lay

(1)

The duck fats rot in the roasting pan

(1)

"Do not be afraid of no"

(1)

But can see better there, and laughing there

(1)

The Anniad

(12)

Think of sweet and chocoalte

(12)

Appendix to the Anniad

(2)

You need the untranslatable ice to watch

(1)

The Certainty we two shall meet by God

(1)

Oh mother, mother, where is happiness

(1)

The Womanhood

(17)

People who have no children can be hard

(1)

What shall I give my children? who are poor

(1)

And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray?

(1)

First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string

(1)

When my dears die, the festival-colored brightness

(1)

Life for my child is simple, and is good

(1)

Sweet Sally took a cardboard box

(1)

A light and diplomatic bird

(1)

Carried her unprotesting out the door

(1)

They get to Benvenuti's. There are booths

(2)

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

(1)

And if sun comes

(1)

One wants a Teller in a time like this

(1)

People protest in sprawling lightless ways

(1)

Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road

(4)

THE BEAN EATERS

In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father

(1)

My Little 'Bout-town Gal

(1)

Strong Men, Riding Horses

(1)

The Bean Eaters

(1)

We Real Cool

(1)

Old Mary

(1)

A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon.

(6)

The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till

(1)

Mrs. Small

(3)

Jessie Mitchell's Mother

(2)

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock

(3)

The Lovers of the Poor

(4)

A Sunset of the City

(2)

A Man of the Middle Class

(3)

The Crazy Woman

(1)

Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Back

100

(1)

A Lovely Love

101

(1)

A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary

102

(1)

Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat

103

(4)

In Emanuel's Nightmare: Another Coming of Christ

107

(3)

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed

110

(5)

NEW POEMS

Riders to the Blood-red Wrath

115

(4)

The Empty Woman

119

(1)

To Be in Love

120

(2)

Of Robert Frost

122

(1)

Langston Hughes

123

(1)

A Catch of Shy Fish

124

(5)

garbageman: the man with the orderly mind

124

(1)

sick man looks at flowers

124

(1)

old people working (garden, car)

125

(1)

weaponed woman

125

(1)

old tennis player

125

(1)

a surrealist and Omega

126

(1)

Spaulding and Francois

126

(1)

Big Bessie throws her son into the street

127

(2)

About Gwendolyn Brooks

129

Excerpts

Selected Poems

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.

Excerpted from Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
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