(LITERATURE) Gwendolyn Brooks Inscribed copy of her three pa

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(LITERATURE.) Gwendolyn Brooks. Inscribed copy of her three-part poem "Riot" issued in the wake of the King assassination. 22 pages including color frontispiece illustration by Jeff Donaldson titled "Allah Shango." 8vo, original illustrated wrappers, minor foxing and minimal wear; signed by the author on title page "Sincerely, Gwendolyn Brooks." Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1969

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At this writing, Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) had already received the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to an African American, and had recently been appointed as Poet Laureate of Illinois. She would later be named Poet Laureate of the United States. As described on the rear wrapper, "Riot is a poem in three parts, only one part of which has appeared in print before. It arises from the disturbances in Chicago after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968."