Color Paperback / softback
by Countee Cullen
Paperback / softback
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Poet, playwright, and novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (1903-1946) emerged as a leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Color, his first published book of poetry, confronts what W.E.B.
DuBois called "the problem of the 20th century-the problem of the color line." The 72 poems include:TO YOU WHO READ MY BOOK • YET DO I MARVEL • A SONG OF PRAISE • BROWN BOY TO BROWN GIRL • A BROWN GIRL DEAD • TO A BROWN GIRL • TO A BROWN BOY • BLACK MAGDALENS • ATLANTIC CITY WAITER • NEAR WHITE • TABLEAU • HARLEM WINE • SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS • INCIDENT • TWO WHO CROSSED A LINE (SHE CROSSES) • TWO WHO CROSSED A LINE (HE CROSSES) • SATURDAY'S CHILD • THE DANCE OF LOVE • PAGAN PRAYER • WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS • TO MY FAIRER BRETHREN • FRUIT OF THE FLOWER • THE SHROUD OF COLOR • HERITAGEEPITAPHS: FOR A POET • FOR MY GRANDMOTHER • FOR A CYNIC • FOR A SINGER • FOR A VIRGIN • FOR A LADY I KNOW • FOR A LOVELY LADY • FOR AN ATHEIST • FOR AN EVOLUTIONIST AND HIS OPPONENT • FOR AN ANARCHIST • FOR A MAGICIAN • FOR A PESSIMIST • FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN • FOR A PHILOSOPHER • FOR AN UNSUCCESSFUL SINNER • FOR A FOOL • FOR ONE WHO GAYLY SOWED HIS OATS • FOR A SKEPTIC • FOR A FATALIST • FOR DAUGHTERS OF MAGDALEN • FOR A WANTON • FOR A PREACHER • FOR ONE WHO DIED SINGING OF DEATH • FOR JOHN KEATS, APOSTLE OF BEAUTY • FOR HAZEL HALL, AMERICAN POET • FOR PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR • FOR JOSEPH CONRAD • FOR MYSELF • ALL THE DEAD FOR LOVE'S SAKE: OH, FOR A LITTLE WHILE BE KIND • IF YOU SHOULD GO • TO ONE WHO SAID ME NAY • ADVICE TO YOUTH • CAPRICE • SACRAMENT • BREAD AND WINE • SPRING REMINISCENCE • VARIA: SUICIDE CHANT • SHE OF THE DANCING FEET SINGS • JUDAS ISCARIOT • THE WISE • MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST • DIALOGUE • IN MEMORY OF COL.
CHARLES YOUNG • TO MY FRIENDS • GODS • TO JOHN KEATS, POET, AT SPRINGTIME • ON GOING • HARSH WORLD THAT LASHEST ME • REQUIESCAM
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
- Publication Date:20/11/2022
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- ISBN:9781609622701
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
- Publication Date:20/11/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781609622701