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Chicago Poems for Illinois, Succeeding Carl Sandburg In 1968, Brooks was named Poet Laureate She received a lifetime achievement award from Chicago Poems for Illinois, succeeding Carl Sandburg. She was the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989, known as a tireless teacher and supporter of and in 1994 was named Jefferson Lecturer by Carl Sandburg younger writers, attending poetry “slams” and by the National Council on the Humanities. often sponsoring awards out of her own pocket. Gwendolyn Brooks died at her home in Chicago on Some critics believe Brooks was underappreciat- December 3, 2000, at the age of 83. Selected Poems ed—but by the latter part of her life, many awards by Gwendolyn Brooks and honors had come to her, including appoint- Additional reading ment to the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gwendolyn Brooks. Maud Martha, 1953. StoryLines Midwest in 1976, and the establishment of the Gwendolyn In the Mecca, 1968. Discussion Guide No. 9 Brooks Center for Creative Writing and Black Family Pictures, 1970. Literature at Chicago State University. In a eulogy Report from Part One, 1972. by David Long for Brooks following her death in December, 2000, To Disembark, 1981. StoryLines Midwest U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove said: The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Literature Consultant Poems, 1986. As a gawky adolescent I spent the whole of a Blacks, 1987. muggy midwestern summer combing the local Report from Part Two, 1996. library shelves for something that might speak to me. .the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks leapt off Discussion questions the pages of the book in my hands and struck me Both Sandburg and Brooks write about working- like a thunderbolt. These were words that spoke class life in Chicago. In which poems in particular straight from the turbulent center of life—words do they have the most common ground? For that nourished like meat, not frosting. .I know each poet, which factors are most responsible for that Gwendolyn Brooks was among the few who shaping that life? gave me the courage to insist on my own story. What human qualities would each of these poets About the author say are most important for survival or happiness? Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917; shortly afterward, the Brooks family Both poets make social commentary in their moved to Chicago. Brooks’s gift for writing was poems; how overtly do they express their recognized and supported while she was still a judgments, and in what ways do they agree and young girl. At the age of 16, she met and received disagree with each other? encouragement from poet Langston Hughes, and at 17, she began to contribute poems to the Chicago If you were to pick one poem from each poet that Defender. She graduated from Wilson Junior represents what each does best, which would it College in 1936, in the heart of the Depression. be? And for each poet, what single line or image Brooks’s first collection, A Street in Bronzeville, sticks with you most forcefully? appeared in 1945, and the following year she won the first of two Guggenheims. In 1953, Brooks published her one novel, Maud Martha, a sequence of short chapters chronicling the down- cast life of the dark-skinned Maud Martha Brown. StoryLines America StoryLines America is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and A Radio/Library administered by the American Library Association to expand American understanding of human experience and cultural Partnership Exploring Our heritage. Additional support from Barnes & Noble ©2001 American Library Association Regional Literature Chicago Poems was a direct descendant of Walt About the author end faced by a pack of young pool shooters: “We Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855), and the same Carl Sandburg was born in January 1878 in real cool. We / Left school. We / Lurk late. We / criticisms leveled at Whitman were now aimed at Galesburg, Illinois. After a brief stint in the Strike straight. We / Sing sin. We / Thin gin. We / Sandburg—that the writing was too “vulgar,” too Spanish-American War, he attended Lombard Jazz June. We / Die soon.” Chicago Poems clumsy and prose-like to be poetry. But critic Louis College, married Lillian Steichen, and worked for But the strengths of this short poem—among by Carl Sandburg Untermeyer called him an “emotional democrat,” the Social Democratic Party in Wisconsin. In the them economy, intense love of word sounds and the “laureate of Industrial America.” Others early 1920s, Sandburg began a study of Abraham rhythm, and close attention to lives lived in the “There was a puzzlement as to whether I was a championed his dogged use of “the American Lincoln, a labor that would occupy him for nearly black neighborhoods of Chicago—are present poet, a biographer, a wandering troubadour with a vernacular,” the speech of ordinary people. two decades. Sandburg traveled all his life, throughout her early work. In 1950, Brooks won guitar, a midwest Hans Christian Andersen, or a In Chicago Poems, Sandburg writes in the and continued his work as a folklorist and public the Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen, becoming the historian of current events,” Carl Sandburg writes first-person, but we never feel the subject is performer. He also produced various Lincoln- first black writer to receive a Pulitzer in any genre. in the preface to his Complete Poems (1950). It himself. We find him roaming, bearing witness. related materials, children’s books, and a novel, This collection’s centerpiece is a mock-epic cycle was true. In 1940, he’d won the Pulitzer Prize in From our early twenty-first century vantage point, Remembrance Rock (1948). He collaborated on of seven-line stanzas called “The Anniad,” which History for his monumental work of love, Abraham Chicago Poems is at its best in two kinds of poem. screenplays and wrote for magazines, from the chronicles the coming of age of a young black Lincoln: The War Years. He won another In the first, Sandburg looks at the city through the Saturday Evening Post to Playboy. Sandburg was woman in the inner city. Pulitzer for the Complete Poems in 1951. He wrote lens of his socialist idealism, giving us portraits given numerous honorary degrees and awards By The Bean Eaters, Brooks’s work had begun journalism, he wrote for children, he was an avid of working-class citizens. The work is often for both history and poetry. In 1945, the Sandburgs to reflect the attitudes of the Civil Rights folklorist, a lecturer and performer, a revered memorable, studded with real-life detail, as in left the Midwest for Flat Rock, North Carolina, movement. In “The Ballad of Rudolph Reed,” a man public figure in mid-century America. “Onion Days” or “Ice Handler” or “Muckers” where he died in July 1967. with a young family yearns to own a home: Son of Swedish immigrants, Sandburg grew (“The muckers work on. .pausing. .to pull / “Where at night a man in bed / May never hear the up in Illinois speaking both English and Swedish. Their boots out of suckholes where they slosh”). Additional reading plaster / Stir as if in pain. / May never hear the His father was a blacksmith who had worked on In the other sort of poem, Sandburg records Carl Sandburg. The Chicago Race Riots, roaches / Falling like fat rain.” When his new neigh- the transcontinental railroad. “Sandburg’s vision snapshots of less politically charged moments— July 1919, 1919. bors shatter his windows with rocks, bloodying his of the American experience was shaped in the moments of quiet beauty, as in “Picnic Boat”: Rootabaga Stories, 1922. daughter, he goes on a rampage and is killed. American Midwest during the complicated events “A big picnic boat comes home to Chicago from Carl Sandburg’s New American Songbag, 1950. Even at her most scathing, Brooks maintains a which brought the nineteenth century to a close,” the peach / farms of Saugatuck. / Hundreds of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the sublime restraint and keenness of vision. In one critic has written. electric bulbs break the night’s darkness, a / flock War Years, 1954. “The Lovers of the Poor,” women from the Ladies’ After leaving school at 13, Sandburg took a of red and yellow birds with wings at a standstill.” The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (rev. Betterment League visit a slum, wishing to help miscellany of jobs; at 18 he rode cross-country Finally, for all Sandburg’s earnestness, a dark and expanded), 1969. “The very very worthy / And beautiful poor.” They using his father’s railroad pass, fueling a life-long humor often surfaces in these poems, as in find things somewhat more squalid than they’d wanderlust. In 1912, Sandburg gravitated to the wonderfully droll “Limited.” Mixed in among bargained for. Leaving, the ladies walk down the Chicago where he began writing for socialist Chicago Poems, it should be said, are lesser center of the hall: “They allow their lovely skirts journals and newspapers, and tried to get the pieces—fragments, poems that don’t come to to graze no wall.” poems he had been writing for several years much, poems that try too hard to echo Whitman. At the Fisk University Writer’s Conference in published. His break came in 1914 when Harriet It’s as if, in his egalitarian heart, Sandburg 1967, Brooks met younger poets associated with Monroe accepted a half-dozen for her couldn’t bear to leave anything out. the Black Arts movement. This encounter avant-garde magazine Poetry. Monroe believed Chicago Poems opens with “Chicago,” Selected Poems galvanized her, she wrote in the first installment of American poetry had become lifeless and Sandburg’s much-recognized anthem to the city by Gwendolyn Brooks her autobiography, Report From Part One (1972); hide-bound—she saw in Sandburg’s muscular (“Hog Butcher for the World / Tool Maker, Stacker it constituted an awakening.
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