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In Montgomery and Other Poems

By Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

 

 

Contents

In Montgomery
     In Montgomery

1

     A Farmer

29

     Behind the Scenes

30

     A Girl

31

     An Old Black Woman, Homeless, and Indistinct

32

Gottschalk and the Grand Tarantelle
     Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle

37

     Winnie

39

     Song of Winnie

41

     Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg

57

     Michael, Young Russia

59

     Brelve, A Battered Woman

60

     Brooke Maj, of Hawthorn South School

61

     The Beauty  in the Forest

62

     Black Love

63

     Last Inauguration of Mayor Harold Washington

65

     Duke Ellington

66

     Martin Luther King Jr.

67

     Jane Addams

68

     Danny Glover

70

     Astonishment of Heart

71

     Old Woman Rap

73

     For Sara Miller, Sculptor

74

     Art

75

     Patrick Boule of cabrini Green

76

Children Coming Home
     After School

79

     The Coora Flower

81

     Nineteen Cows in a Slow Line Wedding

82

     White Girls Are Peculiar People

83

     My Grandmother Is Waiting for me to Come Home

84

     I Am a Black

85

     Religion

87

     Uncle Seagram

88

     In East Afrika Sala Means Gentleness     

90

     In the Persian Gulf

91

     Song: White Powder

92

     Abruptly

93

     Questions

94

     Our White Mother Says We Are Black But Not Very

95

     Puzzlement

97

     Best Friends

98

     My Brothers Greet Me Every Afternoon

99

     Pet

100

     To Be Grown Up

101

     A Something All My Own

102

     I'll Stay

103

In the Mecca
     In the Mecca

109

Biography

143

Aurora

147

   
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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