Blacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Third World Press, 1987.

Summary:

Here is a necessary collection of poetry for admirers of words and treasurers of literary beauty. Spanning more than 30 years, this collection of literary masterpieces by the venerable Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks, arguably Illinois' most beloved Poet Laureate and Chicago's elder black literary stateswoman, Blacks includes all of Ms. Brooks' critically acclaimed writings. Within its covers is the groundbreaking Annie Allen, which earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. There is also the sweepingly beautiful and finely crafted A Street in Bronzeville, a highly anticipated and lauded poetic treasure that spoke volumes for this great poet's love of black people, Chicago's Black community, and even the community of the world. Blacks includes a special treat, Maud Martha, Brooks' only novel.

Contents:

A street in Bronzeville

Annie Allen

Maud Martha

The bean eaters

In the mecca

from Primer for blacks

from Beckonings

from To disembark. Riot ; Family pictures ; To the diaspora

from The near-Johannesburg boy.

Notes:

Poems reproduced elsewhere in the following volumes have been omitted: Beckonings To Disembark The Near-Johannesburg Boy Maud Martha omitted.