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Old Lem
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Poem Criticism
Joanne V. Gabbin: On "Old Lem"
Jean Wagner: On :Old Lem"
Mark A. Sanders: On "Old Lem"
Poem Details
Original Publication Year:
1939
Poet:
Sterling A. Brown
Poetic Form:
Other
Other Poems by the Same Poet
The Slim Greer Sequence
Southern Road
Scotty Has His Say
Memphis Blues
Slim in Atlanta
Slim in Hell
Rent Day Blues
Old Lem
Sharecroppers
Southern Cop
Choices
Slim Greer Sequence
On the Slim Greer Sequence
Poems that Share Poetic Form
The Fish [Marianne Moore]
508 (I'm ceded——I've stopped being Theirs)
1129 (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant——)
1705 (Volcanoes be in Sicily)
Why, Oh Why, the Doily?
Commander Lowell
Dream Song 1
Dream Song 4
Dream Song 5
Dream Song 14
Dream Song 29
The Road Not Taken
The Hill Wife
Fire and Ice
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Memphis Blues
Sharecroppers
Southern Cop
The Alchemist
Dream Song 22
Dream Song 45
Dream Song 46
Dream Song 55
Dream Song 76
Dream Song 384
The Fish (Moore)
Ave Maria
Atlantis
The Bridge
#508 (353) ("I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-")
#1129 (1263) ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-")
#1705 (1691) ("Volcanoes be in Sicily")
Goin Mah Own Road
The Black Finger
Photoheliograph (For Lady A.)
I Sit and Sew
We Wear the Mask
When Malindy Sings
Sympathy
