Selected Poems
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.\
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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.New York TimesWhen 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.
A Street in Bronzeville\ to David and Keziab Brooks
Kitchenette building1The mother2Hunchback girl : she thinks of heaven3A song in the front yard4The ballad of chocolate Mabbie5The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon6Sadie and Maud6When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery9The vacant lot10The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith10Negro hero16Ballad of Pearl May Lee18Gay chaps at the bar23Still do I keep my look, my identity ...23My dreams, my works, must wait till after hell24Looking25Mentors25The white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men26Love note / I : surely26The progress27The birth in a narrow room28Maxie Allen29The parents : people like our marriage : Maxie and Andrew30Sunday chicken30Old relative31Downtown vaudeville32The ballad of late Annie32Throwing out the flowers33"Do not be afraid of no"34"Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps"35My own sweet good35The Anniad36Appendix to The Anniad47IThe children of the poor49VIThe rites for cousin Vit52VIII love those little booths at Benvenuti's52VIIIBeverly Hills, Chicago54XI"One wants a teller in a time like this"56XV"Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road"57Strong men, riding horses59The bean eaters60We real cool60Old Mary61A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi : meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon61The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till68The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock68The lovers of the poor71The crazy woman74A lovely love75Bronzeville woman in a red hat75Bessie of Bronzeville visits Mary and Norman at a beach-house in New Buffalo78The ballad of Rudolph Reed79The egg boiler82A catch of shy fish83Boy breaking glass88Medgar Evers89Malcom X90The Chicago Picasso91The wall92The Blackstone rangers94The sermon on the warpland97The second sermon on the warpland98Riot100The third sermon on the warpland101The life of Lincoln West106To Don at Salaam112Paul Robeson113The boy died in my alley114Steam song116Elegy in a rainbow117Primer for blacks118To those of my sisters who kept their naturals120The near-Johannesburg boy122Shorthand possible124Infirm125The Coora flower126Nineteen cows in a slow line walking127I am a black128Uncle Seagram129Abruptly131An old black woman, homeless, and indistinct132
\ Christian Science MonitorFrom 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 TimesWhen 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.\ \
