Customer Reviews:
 The Greatest. December 18, 2009
Jonathan Pollard
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sterling A. Brown is one of - if not the - greatest black poet of 20th Century America, and - regardless of race - a giant of the literary landscape of the past 100 years. Ironically, he is also one of the most obscure, as is evidenced by the fact that this is only the second review of a book that has long been listed here on Amazon.
Brown brings color; character; realness. But he cannot be written-off as some southern, black dialect poet. His range is tremendous. He can move seamlessly between dialect-heavy poems like Johnny Thomas or Joe Meek to more traditional, "literary" poetry like the beautiful Rain, or Mill Mountain.
More than anything, his work strikes the reader with a profound sense of time and place. Opening this volume of poetry gives you a vivid glimpse of the America that Brown knew; the America that existed for many black Americans of his day.
 the book is good July 12, 1999
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
i think the poet writes in showing how the blacks endured through suffering and tragedy.
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