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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