Item #1203 Beckonings. Gwendolyn Brooks.

Beckonings

Detroit: Broadside Press, [1985]. Tenth Anniversary Edition. 16 pp. VG+ stapled wraps (a touch of toning).

Twelve poems, including "The Boy Died in My Alley," "A Black Wedding Song," and "Boys. Black" ("Boys, in all your Turnings and your Churnings, / remember Afrika... / ... Beware / the easy griefs. / It is too easy to cry "ATTICA" and shock thy street... / ...black boys, / beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing"). Item #1203

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