After Winter

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 <em>After Winter</em> includes 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 his <em>Southern Road</em> focusing on recordings of folk materials relevant to the subject matter style and meaning of individual poems from his oeuvre.<br>