Presents more than eighty poems spanning the career of twentieth-century African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, which explore life on Chicago's south side.

This was the Pulitzer Prize-winner's first new collection of poetry after a gap of nearly ten years. "I was to be a Watchful Eye; a Tuned Ear; a Super-reporter," Brooks said ...

Presents a collection of poems that provide monologues in a variety of voices, including urban children, Winnie Mandela, and Alabama civil rights workers.

A street in Bronzeville.-Annie Allen.-Maud Martha.-The beat eaters.-In the Mecca.

"It would not seem so important for southern writers to justify writing about the South--that region is defined. Midwestern writers, however, must first define their region ...