After Winter

Part I. Revelations; JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, INTRODUCTION TO SOUTHERN ROAD (1932); ALAIN LOCKE, "STERLING BROWN: THE NEW NEGRO FOLK-POET"; STEPHEN E. HENDERSON, "THE HEAVY BLUES OF STERLING BROWN: A STUDY OF CRAFT AND TRADITION"; HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., REVIEW OF THE COLLECTED POEMS; Part II. "A Nachal Man": Formal and Vernacular Aesthetic Theories; ROBERT STEPTO, "'WHEN DE SAINTS GO MA'CHIN' HOME': STERLING BROWN'S BLUEPRINT FOR A NEW NEGRO POETRY"; JOHN EDGAR TIDWELL, "TWO WRITERS SHARING: STERLING A. BROWN, ROBERT FROST, AND 'IN DIVES' DIVE'"; KIMBERLY W. BENSTON, "LISTEN BR'ER STERLING: THE CRITIC AS LIAR [A PRE(R)AMBLE TO ESSAYS ON STERLING BROWN]"; JOHN EDGAR TIDWELL AND TED GENOWAYS (EDS.), "TWO LOST SONNETS BY STERLING A. BROWN"; MICHAEL TOMASEK MANSON, "WORRYING THE LINES: VERSIFICATION IN STERLING BROWN'S SOUTHERN ROAD"; Part III. Folk-Say and Living-People-Lore; ROBERT G. O'MEALLY, "'GAME TO THE HEART': STERLING BROWN AND THE BADMAN"; JOHN EDGAR TIDWELL, "SLIM GREER, STERLING A. BROWN, AND THE ART OF TALL TALE"; JOHN S. WRIGHT, "THE NEW NEGRO POET AND THE NACHAL MAN: STERLING BROWN'S FOLK ODYSSEY"; LORENZO THOMAS, "AUTHENTICITY AND ELEVATION: STERLING BROWN'S THEORY OF THE BLUES"; Part IV. "Unhistoric History": American and African American Cultures; MARK A. SANDERS, "STERLING A. BROWN AND THE AFRO-MODERN MOMENT"; BEVERLY L. SKINNER, "STERLING BROWN: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ODYSSEY"; DAVID ANDERSON, "STERLING BROWN'S SOUTHERN STRATEGY: POETRY AS CULTURAL EVOLUTION IN SOUTHERN ROAD"; JOHN EDGAR TIDWELL, "IN DEFENSE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: STERLING A. BROWN, GUNNAR MYRDAL, AND AN AMERICAN DILEMMA"; Part V. "Running Space": Legacies and Continuities Robert G. O'Meally, "Sterling A. Brown's Literary Essays: The Black Reader in the Text"; JOHN F. CALLAHAN, "'A BROWN STUDY': STERLING BROWN'S LEGACY OF COMPASSIONATE CONNECTIONS"; EKWUEME MICHAEL THELWELL, "THE PROFESSOR AND THE ACTIVISTS: A MEMOIR OF STERLING BROWN"; MICHAEL S. HARPER, "AN INTEGER IS A WHOLE NUMBER"; Part VI. "Steady and Unaccusing": Interviews Charles H. Rowell, "'Let Me Be with Old Jazzbo': An Interview with Sterling A. Brown"; DAVID L. SMITH, "A SYMPOSIUM ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF STERLING BROWN"; JOHN EDGAR TIDWELL AND JOHN S. WRIGHT, "'STEADY AND UNACCUSING': AN INTERVIEW WITH STERLING A. BROWN"; GRAHAM LOCK, "BR'ER STERLING AND THE BLUES: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL S. HARPER"; JOHN EDGAR TIDWELL, "CLARIFYING PHILOSOPHY: STERLING A. BROWN AND THE NONVIOLENT ACTION GROUP"; STEVEN C. TRACY, "A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN H. BRACEY, ESTHER TERRY, AND MIKE THELWELL"; Part VII. "On This I Stand": A Bibliography; ROBERT G. O'MEALLY, "AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF STERLING A. BROWN"; Part VIII. "A Geography of Poetry and Song": A Discography; STEVEN C. TRACY, "FEAR DID NOT CATCH HIS TONGUE AND THROTTLE HIS BREATH: A DISCOGRAPHY OF RECORDINGS BY AND RELATED TO STERLING A. BROWN"