Foreword / Terrance Hayes
The Golden Shovel / Terrance Hayes.
Selected poems by Gwendolyn Brooks.
The Artists' and Models' Ball
An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
The Birth in a Narrow Room
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock
Exhaust the Little Moment. Soon It Dies
Garbageman: The Man with the Orderly Mind
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmitt Till
A Light and Diplomatic Bird
A Man of the Middle Class
My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait till after Hell
The Near-Johannesburg Boy
Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery
One Wants a Teller in a Time like This
A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
Pygmies Are Pygmies Still, Though Percht on Alps
Riders to the Blood-Red Wrath
The Second Sermon on the Warpland
The Sermon on the Warpland
Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward
Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity
Strong Men, Riding Horses
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
To An Old Black Woman, Homeless, and Indistinct
To the Young Who Want to Die
When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story
You Did Not Know You Were Afrika
Non-Brooks Golden Shovels
Variation and Expansions on the Form.
