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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989.

Contributor:

• Harper, Michael S., 1938-2016.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American poetry--African American authors.

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