The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown (National poetry series) - Softcover

Brown, Sterling A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060105178 ISBN 13: 9780060105174

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1980

Synopsis

new edition of great Afro-American poet's works

About this title

About the Author:

Sterling A. Brown was one of the most important and influential figures in the development of African-American literature and criticism in the twentieth century. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1901, he became not only a poet but a folklorist, anthologist, critic, and reviewer. Brown was a professor at Howard University for forty years. He died in 1989.

Review:

"Sterling Brown's poetry should be in print in perpetuity. Its meanings, legends, melodies, and mythologies could only have been shaped by a Black American throat. Sterling Brown's poems have the power of revival music, the declaration of great oratory, and the sonorous crooning of a young man in love." --Maya Angelou


"This is a great book of poems, stunning in its artistry and gigantic in its vision." --Philip Levine

"In Sterling's poetry you find the true meaning of the world soul." --Ernest J. Gaines

"For the first time, we can appreciate Mr. Brown's full range, his mastery of so many traditions. . . . A self-styled 'Old Negro,' Sterling Brown is not only the Afro-American Poet Laureate, he is a great poet." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0060105178
• ISBN 13: 9780060105174
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 257