Color

ColorPoet, playwright, and novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (19031946) 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 centurythe 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

Poet, playwright, and novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (1903Ð1946) emerged as a leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Color, his first published book of poetry, confronts what W.E.B. DuBois called Òthe problem of the 20th centuryÑthe problem of the color line.Ó 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