Inscribed first edition of this collection of poems on schoolchildren's joy and pain beyond the classroom, published by Brooks's own David Company press.
Near fine.
Price: $750.00
"I always thought there was something to be done about everything."
After being named US Poet Laureate in 1985, Gwendolyn Brooks established The David Company (named in honor of her late father) as an outgrowth of her focus on independent, Black-owned printing. The poems in CHILDREN COMING HOME, with its wrappers resembling a composition notebook, are written in the voice of schoolchildren; for example, Ulysses looks forward to his welcome ("holding hands, holding Love"), while Tinsel Marie dreads the dangers that await ("I must watch myself. / I must not dare to sleep").
First printing. Chicago: The David Company, (1991). 9.25'' x 7.5''. Original perfect-bound pictorial wrappers. All pages printed and paginated recto only. [14], [40], [10] pages. Inscribed to first blank leaf: "For NYPL! / Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks / March 21, 1994[.]" Minor wear to wrappers.
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