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Cullen (1903-46), Harlem Renaissance poet and man of letters, is perhaps best known for the couplet "Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ to make a poet black, and bid him sing." His poems infuse a Keatsean prosody with the existential concerns of being black, American, and Christian: "It is a rare and tantalizing fruit/ Our hands reach for, but nothing absolute." Lauded by educated blacks and whites of the Twenties, Cullen's work has been neglected in recent years. This long-overdue collection expands a poetry selection released soon after his death. More poems, a novel, essays, translations, speeches, an interview by James Baldwin, notes, and more have been added by Early, whose fine introduction is a moving portrait of a man whose biography has proven elusive. Highly recommended.
- Ellen Kaufman, Dew ey Ballantine Law Lib., New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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For the first time in more than two decades, the very best of Countee Cullen's poetry and prose is available in one collection.
Cullen (1903-46), Harlem Renaissance poet and man of letters, is perhaps best known for the couplet "Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ to make a poet black, and bid him sing." His poems infuse a Keatsean prosody with the existential concerns of being black, American, and Christian: "It is a rare and tantalizing fruit/ Our hands reach for, but nothing absolute." Lauded by educated blacks and whites of the Twenties, Cullen's work has been neglected in recent years. This long-overdue collection expands a poetry selection released soon after his death. More poems, a novel, essays, translations, speeches, an interview by James Baldwin, notes, and more have been added by Early, whose fine introduction is a moving portrait of a man whose biography has proven elusive. Highly recommended.
- Ellen Kaufman, Dew ey Ballantine Law Lib., New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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For the first time in more than two decades, the very best of Countee Cullen's poetry and prose is available in one collection.
"My Soul's High Song is a generous introduction to new readers of Countee Cullen and a more than generous offering to those of us who hold the poet dear."--Maya Angelou
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