Countee Cullen: Collected Poems
(American Poets Project #32)
Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Countee Cullen | ISBN: | 9781598532708 |
| Publisher: | Library of America | Publication: | March 21, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Library of America | Language: | English |
| Author: | Countee Cullen |
| ISBN: | 9781598532708 |
| Publisher: | Library of America |
| Publication: | March 21, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Library of America |
| Language: | English |
A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems—“Heritage,” “Yet Do I Marvel”—are widely celebrated, but much of Cullen’s work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity and beauty.
This is volume #32 in The Library of America’s American Poets Project series.
A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems—“Heritage,” “Yet Do I Marvel”—are widely celebrated, but much of Cullen’s work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity and beauty.
This is volume #32 in The Library of America’s American Poets Project series.
