Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition by Gabbin, Joanne V

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Charlottesville, VA:: University Press of Virginia,, (1994.). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy). First thus- a trade paperback. Originally published in 1985, this remains the most important study of the life and legacy of Sterling A. Brown, an African-American poet and scholar whose literary work presaged future generations of black authors and scholars. Leopold Senghor called him "an original militant of Negritude, a precursor of our movement" and in their foreword, John W. Blassingame and Henry Gates, Jr, describe his book of poetry "Southern Road" as the book which ended the Harlem Renaissance and moved black writing into the modernist lyrical mode. Notes, bibliography, index. xii, 245 pp.

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Paperback / softback. New. Gabbin sketches Brown's life, drawing on personal interviews, and examines his achievements as a poet, critic and cultural commentator. She analyzes the formal and thematic qualities of his poetry, revealing his adaptation of song forms, especially the blues.

University of Virginia Press, 1994-07-29. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!