BLACKS | GWENDOLYN BROOKS | THIRD WORLD PRESS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Some of the material in this compilation has been previously | published by Harper and Row, New York, under the | following titles: Maud Martha, The Bean Eaters, In the | Mecca, Annie Allen, A Street in Bronzeville and The World of | Gwendolyn Brooks
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. | No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any | manner whatsoever without written permission except in the | case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and | reviews.
To the Memory | of My Parents, | David and Keziah Brooks
[1] Annie Allen | The Author acknowledges her indebtedness to the John Simon Gug- | genheim Memorial Foundation of New York. | Some of the poems were published in Common Ground, Poetry, | Negro Story, The Poetry of the Negro, and Cross-Section 1945. | The Bean Eaters | Some of these poems were first published in Harper's Magazine, | Poetry, and Voices
[2] In the Mecca | Parts of this book were first published in Negro Digest, Chicago | Magazine, Journal of Black Poetry and Sisters Today, and by Broad- | side Press. | Certain poems in Beckonings, Riot, and Family Pictures were | Reprinted in To Disembark, and I credit Broadside Press of Detroit | and Third World Press of Chicago
Blacks (Third World Press 1987 edition)
Third World Press 1987 edition, fifth printing, Chicago