Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties by Countee Cullen

Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties

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Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties

Kensington Publishing Corporation

Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties

by Countee Cullen

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 This selection from the work of thirty-eight poets was made by Countee Cullen in 1927. His stated purpose at the time was to bring together a miscellany of deeply appreciated but scattered verse.

Beginning with the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who, though there were black poets before him, is generally credited as the first black poet to make a deep impression on the literary world, the book includes the writings of James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Faucet, Sterling A. Brown, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen himself, to name only a few.

Each poem includes poignant biographical notes written by the poets themselves, with the exception of the notes on Dunbar (written by his wife), Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. (written by his father), and Lula Weeden (written by her mother).

Most of the poets became well known and widely published in the years that followed. These poems remain powerful statements of what it means to be human, whatever the race.

Long out of print, "Caroling Dusk" is a valuable addition to the body of black literature. This is the first time the anthology has appeared in a paperback edition.
Book Details
Publisher:
Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
9780806513492
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
264
Authors:
Countee Cullen
Published Date:
1993-01-01
Language:
English
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About Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen (1903–1946) began writing poetry at fourteen. Born Countee LeRoy Porter, he was taken in at fifteen by the Reverend Frederick A. Cullen, pastor of Salem Methodist Episcopal Church in Harlem. He earned an A.B. from New York University in 1925 and an M.A. in English from Harvard. Color, his first volume, came from Harper & Bros. that same year, followed by Copper Sun and The Ballad of the Brown Girl; for the same house he edited Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties in 1927. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry in 1928 and married Nina Yolande Du Bois that year. From 1934 he taught in New York City public schools for twelve years.

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