The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown /
"This is the definitive collection of poetry by Sterling A. Brown, one of the greatest African-American poet of the last century"--
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Evanston, Illinois :
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Cornelius Eady
- Preface / by Michael S. Harper
- Southern Road
- Introduction / by Sterling Stuckey
- Introduction to the first edition / by James Weldon Johnson
- Part One: 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
- Sam Smiley
- To Sallie, Walking
- Bessie
- Kentucky Blues
- Mister Samuel and Sam
- Southern Road
- Sister Lou
- Strong Men
- Part Two: 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
- Part Three: Tin Roof Blues
- Tin Roof Blues
- Effie
- Children's Children
- Mecca
- Chillen Get Shoes
- Funeral
- Harlem Street Walkers
- Sporting Beasley
- Cabaret
- Part Four: 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
- 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
- Part One: Harlem Stopover
- Harlem Happiness
- Negro Improvement League
- The Temple
- Roberta Leeho
- Real Mammy Song
- The Law for George
- The New Congo
- Part Two: The Cotton South
- Arkansas Chant
- The Young Ones
- Old Lem
- Sharecroppers
- Master and Man
- Part Three: Down in Atlanta
- Southern Cop
- Mr. Danny
- An Old Woman Remembers
- Transfer
- Episode
- All Are Gay
- Part Four: "Rocks Cried Out"
- Legend
- Bitter Fruit of the Tree
- Memo: For the Race Orators
- Crossing
- Call for Barnum
- Song of Triumph
- Remembering Nat Turner
- Part Five: Road to the Left
- Raise a Song
- Colloquy
- Street Car Gang
- Side by Side
- Part Six: Frilot Cove
- Let Us Suppose
- Cloteel
- Parish Doctor
- Uncle Joe
- Louisiana Pastoral
- Part Seven: Washington, D.C.
- Glory, Glory
- Choices
- No More Worlds to Conquer
- Call Boy
- Puttin' on Dog
- Part Eight: 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