The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown / Selected by Michael S. Harper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989.

Contributor:

Harper, Michael S., 1938-2016, writer of preface.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

National poetry series

National poetry series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xii, 257 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980.

Contents:

Southern Road. Part One: Road so Rocky; Part Two: On Restless River; Part Three: Ten Roof Blues; Part Four: Vestiges

The Last Ride of Wild Bill

No Hiding Place. Part One. Harlem Stopover; Part Two: The Cotton South; Part Three: Down in Atlanta; Part Four: "Rocks Cried Out"; Part Five: Road to the Left; Part Six: Frilot Cove; Part Seven: Washington, D.C.; Part Eight: Remembrances.

Notes:

"Designer: Ruth Bornschlegel."

"Jacket design by Gloria Adelson. Jacket photo by © Thomas Victor."

" ... the classic collection 'Southern Road' (1932) has not been available for some time and most of the other poems have never before been gathered together in book form."--Dust jacket.

"An annotated bibliography of the works of Sterling A. Brown": pages. 243-255.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has obituary and appreciation of Sterling A. Brown from the Washington Post laid in.

ISBN:

0060105178

OCLC:

6563356