After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown [Paperback]

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work,After Winterincludes new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approaches to Brown's multifaceted works; interviews with Brown's acquaintances and contemporaries; an up-to-date, annotated bibliography; and a discography of source material that innovatively extends the study and teaching of Brown's acclaimed poetry, especially hisSouthern Road, focusing on recordings of folk materials relevant to the subject matter, style, and meaning of individual poems from his oeuvre.John Edgar Tidwell is Professor of English at the University of Kansas.Steven C. Tracy is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The mind, the lore, and the legacy of Sterling A. Brown emerge in robust voices inAfter Winter. Brown's bold intellectualism and rich cultural style inspired the essays that John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy meticulously collected here, and Brown's blues spirit quickens each page. -Joanne V. Gabbin, author ofSterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition