The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown

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?
Slin 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 Lee
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

An Annotated Bibliography by Robert G. O'Meally