Children coming home / Gwendolyn Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered leaves, 20 leaves, 10 unnumbered leaves ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The David Company, 1991.

Contents:

The Coora Flower

Nineteen Cows in a Slow Line Walking

White Girls are Peculiar People

My Grandmother is Waiting for Me to Come Home

I am a Black

Religion

Uncle Seagram

In East Afrika Sala means Gentleness

In the Persian Gulf

Song: White Powder

Abruptly

Questions

Our White Mother Says we are Black but not very

Puzzlement

Best Friends

My Brothers Greet Me Every Afternoon

Pet

To Be Grown Up

A Something All My Own

I'll Stay.

Notes:

Cover has black and white mottled design of composition notebook with poems written in first-person voice of twenty imagined young characters.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy inscribed "Sincerely Gwendolyn Brooks March 22, 1992".

OCLC:

25853299