The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent

Synopsis

Foreword: This Gwensister Called Life / Sonia Sanchez -- Preface / Quraysh Ali Lansana And Georgia A. Popoff -- Introduction / William Ayers -- Critical Essays -- Hacking At The Root: Brook's Exploration Of Colorism In Maud Martha / Tara Betts -- Juxtaposed Dichotomies: The Idealized White Suburban Pastoral, The Surrealist Tableau Of Black Poverty, And The Women In Between / Antoinette Brim -- A Poetics Against Obscuring: Reflections On The Black Underclass In The Work Of Gwendolyn Brooks / R.j. Eldridge -- The Politics Of Neglect / James Allen Hall -- We Still Cool?: Revisiting Black Masculinity, Resistance, And Urban Violence In Brooks's We Real Cool / Troy Harden -- Double Vision: Innocence And Experience In The Childlike Monologues Of Gwendolyn Brooks / Judith Harris -- I Do Not Sell Well': Black Women Decentered In The Black Arts Movement / Ciara Darnise Miller -- Building An Architecture Of Love: An Appreciation Of Gwendolyn Brooks's In Montgomery / Patricia Spears Jones -- Velvety Velour And Other Sonnet Textures In Gwendolyn Brooks's The Children Of The Poor / Christina Pugh -- The Form Of Paradox: Gwendolyn Brooks's The Anniad / Keith S. Wilson -- Art Urges Voyages: Sense Of Self As Social Change In Gwendolyn Brooks's The Crazy Woman And Song Of Winnie / Demetrice A. Worley -- Gwendolyn Brooks : On Rioting And Riot--a Symposium -- Mundane And Plural: Riot / David Baker -- Brooks's Prosody: Three Sermons On The Warpland / Carl Phillips -- The Eros In Democracy: An Aspect Of Love, Alive In Ice And Fire / Meghan O'rourke -- Personal And Creative Reflections: #149 / Jill Hawkins -- Deliberate / Dasha Kelly -- Family Pictures, Old & New / Adrian Matejka -- Breaking Glass And The Sad Shatter Of Hope / Georgia A. Popoff -- The Necessary Truth / Cin Salach -- Jazz June / Clifford Thompson -- Gwendolyn Brooks And Me: How I Discovered The Golden Shovel / Emma Vallelunga -- Our Black Ms. Brooks / Nagueyalti Warren -- Blacks: A Permission To Be Blk. / Avery R. Young -- A Moment With Ms. Brooks / John H. White -- Legacy: Pulitzer Jury Report: February 1950 / Major Jackson -- Concealed And Carried: Brooks's Loaded Boxes / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Afterword / Haki R. Madhubuti. Edited By Quraysh Ali Lansana And Georgia A. Popoff ; Foreword By Sonia Sanchez. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 203-218) And Index.