"Madimba: Gwendolyn Brooks" / Michael S. Harper
"Down the whirlwind of good rage": an introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks / Maria K. Mootry
1. "That mad demi-art": general assessment: The achievement of Gwendolyn Brooks / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Aesthetic values in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks / George E. Kent
The world of Satin-legs, Mrs. Sallie, and the Blackstone Rangers: the restricted Chicago of Gwendolyn Brooks / Kenny J. Williams
The poet-militant and foreshadowings of a Black mystique: poems in the second period of Gwendolyn Brooks / William H. Hansell
Gwendolyn Brooks and a Black aesthetic / Norris B. Clark
"Does man love art?": the humanistic aesthetic of Gwendolyn Brooks / R. Baxter Miller
2. "A brisk contour": analysis of the poetry: Songs after sunset (1935-36): the unpublished poetry of Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks / Erlene Stetson
Paradise regained: the children of Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville / Gary Smith
Anger so flat: Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Claudia Tate
The women of Bronzeville / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Gwendolyn Brooks's "Children of the poor", metaphysical poetry and the inconditions of love / Gary Smith
"Tell it Slant": disguise and discovery as revisionist poetic discourse in The bean eaters / Maria K. Mootry
Community and voice: Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the mecca" / Gayl Jones
The ballads of Gwendolyn Brooks / Gladys Williams
Gwendolyn the terrible: propositions on eleven poems / Hortense J. Spillers.
3. "Daughter of the dusk": Maud Martha: Nuance and the novella: a study of Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha / Barbara Christian
Maud Martha: the war with beauty / Harry B. Shaw.
