Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks

Lansana, Quraysh Ali, (editor.). Jackson-Opoku, Sandra, (editor.).

Summary: Essays, poetry, and art included in this anthology celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of the late poet and cultural icon Gwendolyn Brooks.

Item details

ISBN: 9781940430867 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1940430860 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 416 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Curbside Splendor Publishing, Inc., 2017.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Of memory and revision / Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Foreword / Marita Golden -- Part I. Child-free / Joan Wiese Johannes ; Barbed wire / Jodi Joanclair ; I, too, am the mother / Georgia A. Popoff ; The unmother / Angela Jackson ; Dialogue between two women at the clinic / Jeanne Towns ; Motherhood / Emily Hooper Lansana ; First journey / Diane Glancy ; Daystar / Rita Dove ; My mother's clothes / Chirskira Caillouet ; Washer woman / Kimberly A. Collins ; Tax deadline / Akua Lezli Hope ; Fixing face / Akua Lezli Hope ; [Untitled] / Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Milk bath / Zoe Lynn Nyman -- Part 2. Horse and carriage on the plaza / Natasha Ria El-Scari ; A slip into history / Crystal Simone Smith ; My face / Aries Hines ; blk(s) / Avery R. Young ; The night after you have been fired from your job / Natasha Ria El-Scari ; A burning lesson / Kimberly A. Collins ; She was my first / Kalisha Buckhanon ; Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday / Jessica Care Moore --