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.

A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE

A Street in Bronzeville

3

(9)

kitchenette building

3

(1)

the mother

4

(1)

southeast corner

5

(1)

hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven

5

(1)

a song in the front yard

6

(1)

the ballad of chocolate Mabbie

7

(1)

the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon

8

(1)

Sadie and Maud

8

(1)

the independent man

9

(1)

of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery

10

(1)

the vacant lot

11

(1)

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith

12

(7)

Negro Hero

19

(14)

Gay Chaps at the Bar

22

(11)

gay chaps at the bar

22

(1)

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

23

(1)

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell

23

(1)

looking

24

(1)

piano after war

24

(1)

mentors

25

(1)

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

25

(1)

firstly inclined to take what it is told

26

(1)

"God works in a mysterious way"

27

(1)

love note I: surely

27

(1)

love note II: flags

28

(1)

the progress

28

(5)

ANNIE ALLEN

Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood

33

(5)

Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes

33

(1)

Chicken, she chided early, should not wait

33

(1)

After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead

34

(1)

Late Annie in her bower lay

34

(1)

The duck fats rot in the roasting pan

35

(1)

"Do not be afraid of no"

36

(1)

But can see better there, and laughing there

37

(1)

The Anniad

38

(12)

Think of sweet and chocoalte

38

(12)

Appendix to the Anniad

50

(2)

You need the untranslatable ice to watch

50

(1)

The Certainty we two shall meet by God

51

(1)

Oh mother, mother, where is happiness

51

(1)

The Womanhood

52

(17)

People who have no children can be hard

52

(1)

What shall I give my children? who are poor

53

(1)

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

53

(1)

First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string

54

(1)

When my dears die, the festival-colored brightness

54

(1)

Life for my child is simple, and is good

55

(1)

Sweet Sally took a cardboard box

56

(1)

A light and diplomatic bird

57

(1)

Carried her unprotesting out the door

58

(1)

They get to Benvenuti's. There are booths

59

(2)

The dry brown coughing beneath their feet

61

(1)

And if sun comes

62

(1)

One wants a Teller in a time like this

63

(1)

People protest in sprawling lightless ways

64

(1)

Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road

65

(4)

THE BEAN EATERS

In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father

69

(1)

My Little 'Bout-town Gal

70

(1)

Strong Men, Riding Horses

71

(1)

The Bean Eaters

72

(1)

We Real Cool

73

(1)

Old Mary

74

(1)

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

75

(6)

The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till

81

(1)

Mrs. Small

82

(3)

Jessie Mitchell's Mother

85

(2)

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock

87

(3)

The Lovers of the Poor

90

(4)

A Sunset of the City

94

(2)

A Man of the Middle Class

96

(3)

The Crazy Woman

99

(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

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