Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Annie Allen in 1950, Brooks captured and reinforced the cadences and connectivity of city life in Chicago. Beckonings is a strong mid-career collection ending with these lines from ‘Boys. Black:’

“Make of my Faith an engine./Make of my Faith/a Black Star. I am Beckoning.” 

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1975. 16 pages. 14 x 21.5 x .5cm. First edition. Small ink mark to margin of front cover. Stapled tan paper covers with brown lettering, with author portrait by Raymond Brooks on back cover, a special publication in very good condition.