Precursors in “Angles of Ascent,” pp. 4-27

4 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky

We discussed together Gwendolyn Brooks’ poems “The Sundays of Satin Legs Smith” and “Boy Breaking Glass” attending to the speaker’s tone toward the subjects of the poems. We also discussed Robert Hayden’s “Elegies for Paradise Valley.” We added Brook’s Chicago and Hayden’s Detroit to Hughes’s New York as “Chocolate Cities,” Northern US cities with significant Black neighborhoods..