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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Terrance Hayes -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- The Golden Shovel / Terrance Hayes -- Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks -- A Sunset of the City -- kitchenette building -- Boy Breaking Glass -- a song in the front yard -- The Bean Eaters -- The Anniad -- ARACELIS GIRMAY, After -- HAILEY LEITHAUSER, What There Is to Spend -- Appendix to the Anniad -- PAUL MARTINEZ-POMPA, Next Time Honey -- RACHEL RICHARDSON, A Halo for Her Invisible Hair -- The Artists' and Models' Ball -- ANNE SHAW, Weather Report -- An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire -- PATTIANN ROGERS, First Summer Song -- RENÉE WATSON, An Aspect of Love -- Ballad of Pearl May Lee -- SUSAN WHEELER, Stay, Dear -- The Ballad of Rudolph Reed -- ANDREW MOTION, Conjunction -- The Bean Eaters -- BONNIE JO CAMPBELL, Resurrection -- CAITLIN DOYLE, The Parrot Man -- SANDRA M. GILBERT, The Fava Bean-Eaters -- NIKKI GIOVANNI, At the Evening of Life -- DIANE GLANCY, Evening -- JACK POWERS, Roadside Diner: Fairfield, Maine -- CHRISTIAN ROBINSON, Next to the Flatware -- PHILIP SCHULTZ, New Year's Eve in Times Square -- Beverly Hills, Chicago -- DIDI JACKSON, Golden Shovel Buddha -- MAJOR JACKSON, Stand Your Ground -- ANGELA NARCISO TORRES, September, Chicago -- The Birth in a Narrow Room -- JENNY BOULLY, Child Tipping Forever -- The Blackstone Rangers -- JUDY BLUNDELL, What is betrayal but a construct? -- CHELSEA DIXON, The Ache -- RANDALL HORTON, A Love Jones in a Booming Economy -- QURAYSH ALI LANSANA, 1972 ford ltd -- MIKE PUICAN, FUNERAL Sign -- KELLY REUTER, After the Eulogy -- NATALIE RICHARDSON, Cure and Curry -- DEBRIS STEVENSON, i. Cecil Park-High as the Swings ii. Dutch Pot Dancing -- Boy Breaking Glass -- MEENA ALEXANDER, Imagine This -- CATHERINE BROGAN, Boys Breaking Glass.
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