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The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown / edited by Michael S. Harper.
LIBRA Special PS3503.R833 A17 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 267 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books, 1996.
- Summary:
- Arguably the greatest African-American poet of the century, and one of the most important American poets, Sterling A. Brown was a contemporary of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer; as a part of this group, and individually, he has been instrumental in bringing the traditions of African-American folklife to readers all over the world.
- Contents:
- Preface / Michael S. Harper
- Introduction / Sterling Stuckey
- Introduction to the first edition / James Weldon Johnson
- Road so rocky:
- Odyssey of big boy
- Long gone
- Maumee Ruth
- When de saints go ma'ching home
- Dark of the moon
- Seeking religion
- Georgie Grimes
- Scotty has his say
- Ruminations of Luke Johnson
- Virginia portrait
- Old man buzzard
- Johnny Thomas
- Frankie and Johnny
- Same Smiley
- To Sallie, walking
- Bessie
- Kentucky blues
- Mister Samuel and Sam
- Southern road
- Sister Lou
- Strong men
- On restless river: Memphis blues
- Ma Rainey
- Old King Cotton
- Children of the Mississippi
- New St. Louis blues
- Foreclosure
- Checkers
- Mose
- After winter
- Pardners
- Slim greer
- Slim lands a job?
- Slim in Atlanta
- Slim hears "The call"
- Slim in hell
- New steps
- Convict
- Strange legacies
- Revelations
- Riverbank blues
- Tin roof blues: Tin roof blues
- Effie
- Children's children
- Mecca
- Chillen get shoes
- Funeral
- Harlem Street walkers
- Sporting beasley
- Cabaret
- Vestiges: Salutamus
- To a certain lady, in her garden
- Challenge
- Telling fortunes
- Rain
- Return
- Nous n'irons plus au bois ...
- Thoughts of death
- Against that day
- Mill mountain
- The last ride of Wild Bill
- He was a man
- Elder mistletoe
- Crispus attucks McKoy
- A bad, bad man
- break of day
- Rent day blues
- The ballad of Joe Meek
- No hiding place: Harlem stopover: Harlem happiness
- Negro improvement league
- The temple
- Roberta Lee
- Real Mammy song
- The law for George
- The new Congo
- The cotton south: Arkansas chant
- The young ones
- Old Lem
- Sharecroppers
- Master and man
- Down in Atlanta: Southern cop
- Mr. Danny
- An old woman remembers
- Transfer
- Episode
- All are gay
- "Rocks cried out": Legend
- Bitter fruit of the tree
- Memo: for the race orators
- Crossing
- Call for Barnum
- Song of triumph
- Remembering Nat Turner
- Road to the left: Raise a song
- Colloquy
- Street car gang
- Side by side
- Frilot cove: Let us suppose
- Cloteel
- Parish doctor
- Uncle Joe
- Louisiana pastoral
- Washington, D. C.: Glory, glory
- Choices
- No more worlds to conquer
- Call boy
- Puttin' on a dog
- Remembrances: April in Coolwell
- Coolwell vignette
- Honey mah love
- Memories of Salem
- Idyll
- One way of taking leave
- Isaiah to Mandy
- Conjured
- Long track blues.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is third printing, 2000.
- ISBN:
- 081015045X
- 9780810150454
- OCLC:
- 33983589
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