Sterling Allen Brown, the beloved Howard University professor for forty years, was not only a poet, he was a cultural anthropologist. He studied Southern speak patterns, music, folklore, and culture, then wrote those findings into poems. He often wrote in dialect.
This poem is from his first collection, also named Southern Road, which examines and dignifies the lives of poor, Black, country-born people. In 1981, Brown's Collected Poems won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the best collection of poetry published that year.
Shawn Sebastian Naar reads an introduction to offer context on the poet and the poem.
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