Essential Brooks
"Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks reads 27 of her best poems, including 'Do not be afraid of no,' 'The bean eaters,' 'Riot,' and 'The sermon on the warpland,' in a quiet, forceful manner that underscores the raw vigor of her writing, centered...
| Main Author: | Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. |
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[New York?] :
HarperCollins : Caedmon,
p2006.
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Table of Contents:
- (from A street in Bronzeville):
- Kitchenette building
- (:57)
- Obituary for a living lady
- (1:49)
- Sadie and Maud
- (:48)
- Matthew Cole
- (1:17)
- The vacant lot
- (:34)
- Queen of the blues
- (2:22)
- The mother
- (2:05)
- The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
- (9:13)
- (from Annie Allen) : The parents: people like our marriage Maxie and Andrew
- (:39)
- Do not be afraid of no
- (1:30)
- "Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps"
- (:45)
- The rites for Cousin Vit
- (1:01)
- Leaves from a loose-leaf war diary
- (1:29)
- The children of the poor
- (4:46)
- (from The bean eaters)
- My little 'Bout-town gal
- (:39)
- The bean eaters
- (:47)
- Old Mary
- (:16)
- The lovers of the poor
- (6:38)
- A man of the middle class
- (2:36)
- Kid Bruin
- (:33)
- The ghost at the Quincy Club
- (:51)
- (from Selected poems):
- Garbageman: the man with the orderly mind
- (1:00)
- Weaponed woman
- (:28).
- (from Black expression Vol. 1, no. 1):
- Riot
- (2:16).
- (from In America):
- Gang girls
- (1:56)
- The wall
- (2:20)
- The sermon on the warpland
- (1:30).