Contents
Contents
Preface - xi
Part One: Reviews
A Street in Bronzeville
Chicago Can Take Pride in New, Young Voice in Poetry - 3
PAUL ENGLE
Review of A Street in Bronzeville - 5
Annie Allen
Cellini-Like Lyrics - 6
J. Saunders Redding
Verse Chronicle - 8
ROLFE HUMPHRIES
Still Remarkable - 9
Bronze by Gold - 10
STANLEY KUNITZ
Maude Martha
From Poet to Novelist - 15
Soft Meditations - 16
HENRY F. WINSLOW
The Bean Eaters
From "Battle of the Books" - 17
NICK AARON FORD
Pity the Giants - 19
HARVEY CURTIS WEBSTER
Selected Poems
Taking the Poem by the Horns - 23
LOUIS SIMPSON
A Long Reach, Strong Speech - 24
BRUCE CUTLER
In the Mecca
Books That Look Out, Books That Look In - 26
WILLIAM STAFFORD
In the Mecca - 27
M. L. ROSENTHAL
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
Making Beauty from Racial Anxiety - 29
ADDISON GAYLE, JR.
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks - 35
ROBERT FARNSWORTH
Children Coming Home
Children Coming Home: A Tribute to Survival - 38
ANNYE L. REFOE
Part Two: Essays
Blacklisting Poets - 45
JAMES N. JOHNSON
Gwendolyn Brooks: An Appreciation from the White Suburbs - 50
DAN JAFFE
For Sadie and Maud - 60
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks - 66
GEORGE E. KENT
Gwendolyn Brooks: Beyond the Wordmaker -- The Making of an African Poet - 81
HAKI R. MADHUBUTI
Gwendolyn Brooks - 97
ARTHUR P. DAVIS
Essences, Unifyings, and Black Militancy: Major Themes in Gwendolyn Brooks's Family Pictures and Beckonings - 106
WILLIAM H. HANSELL
From "The Florescense of Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s" - 116
HOUSTON A. BAKER
Maud Martha - 124
HARRY B. SHAW
Dual Vision in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha - 136
PATRICIA H. LATTIN AND VERNON E. LATTIN
"Define . . . the Whirlwind": Gwendolyn Brooks's Epic Sign for a Generation - 146
R. BAXTER MILLER
In the Mecca - 161
D. H. MELHEM
Gwendolyn Brooks: Jean Toomer's November Cotton Flower - 182
JOYCE ANN JOYCE
Making It Really New: Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Feminist Potential of Modern Poetry - 186
GERTRUDE REIF HUGHES
The Satisfaction of What's Difficult in Gwendolyn Brooks's Poetry - 213
BROOKE KENTON HORVATH
"Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle" - 224
BRENDA R. SIMMONS
Part Three: Recent Essays
The Women of Bronzeville - 233
BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL
The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks: An Afrocentric Exploration - 246
JOYCE ANN JOYCE
Gwendolyn Brooks: An Essential Sanity - 254
HENRY TAYLOR
In Memoriam: Gwendolyn Brooks - 277
ANGELA JACKSON
Selected Bibliography - 285
