Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #318281 in Books
• Published on: 1990-12-01
• Released on: 1990-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 618 pages

From Library Journal
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.

From the Publisher
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

Customer Reviews

A total anthology of Cullen's pieces
there are few poems missing IE Incident. Cullen's poetry is among <
> the best that i've ever read.<
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