Color

Description

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 - HERITAGE EPITAPHS: 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.