For more than sixty years, Sterling A. Brown, poet, folklorist, cultural critic, literary historian, teacher, and raconteur, profoundly shaped the development of African American literary and cultural studies. This book-length collection of new and exemplary writings, After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown, coedited by John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy, provides the most extensive effort to recover, reassess, and reassert Brown's
enduring significance for contemporary scholars, students, and nonacademic readers too. This engaging recuperative effort is structured around four distinctive but cogent features: (1) new and previously published
essays that sum up contemporary approaches to the various genres of Brown's works; (2) interviews with Brown and with his acquaintances and contemporaries who articulate his influential aesthetic vision and communicate his importance as a scholar, creative writer, and teacher; (3) two discographies of source material that innovatively extend the study of Brown's acclaimed poetry, by focusing on recordings of folk materials relevant to the subject matter, style, and meaning of individual poems
from his oeuvre; and (4) an updated version of the most comprehensive bibliography of Brown's published writings, by Robert G. O'Meally. After Winter demonstrates how Brown, in words from one of his
familiar poems, continues to "just get hold of us dataway."