Books by Gwendolyn Brooks

In Montgomery and Other Poems /  A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks (Kent) / A Street in Bronzeville (1945) / Selected Poems (1963) / In the Mecca  (1968)

 Riot (1969) /  The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves (1970), Blacks (1987), and Children Coming Home (1992) / Maud Martha (1953)

Report from Part One: An Autobiography  (1972) /  Report from Part Two: Autobiography(1996) / Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology (1971).

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                                        By Gwendolyn Brooks

Black love, provide the adequate electric

for what is lapsed and lenient in us now.

Rouse us from blur, Call us.

Call adequately the postponed corner brother.

And call our man in the pin-stripe suiting and restore

him to his abler logic; to his people.

Call to the shattered sister and repair her

in her difficult hour, narrow her fever.

Call to the Elders—

our customary grace and further sun

loved in the Long-ago, loathed in the Lately; 

a luxury of languish and of rust.

Appraise, assess our Workers in the Wild, lest they

descend to malformation and to undertow.

Black love, define and escort our young, be means and

          redemption, discipline.

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Source: In Montgomery and Other Poems

Literary Production

Poetry

    A Street in Bronzeville (1945)
    Annie Allen (1949)
    Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956)
    The Bean Eaters (1960)
    Selected Poems (1963)
    We Real Cool (1966)
    The Wall (1967)
    In the Mecca (1968)
    Family Pictures (1970)
    Riot (1970)
    Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali (1971)
    The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (1971)
    Aloneness (1971)
    Aurora (1972)
    Beckonings (1975)
    Black Love (1981)
    To Disembark (1981)
    The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986)
    Blacks (1987)
    Winnie (1988)

    Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle (1989)

    Children Coming Home (1991)

    In Montgomery and Other Poems (2003)

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update 5 March 2009