Copper Sun by Countee Cullen

Copper Sun

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Copper Sun

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Copper Sun

by Countee Cullen

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 Poet, playwright, novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (1903-1946) emerged as a leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Copper Sun, his second book of poetry, explores the emotional consequences of being black, Christian, bisexual, and a poet in Jazz Age America-such as in the following "Confession" If for a day joy masters me, Think not my wounds are healed; Far deeper than the scars you see, I keep the roots concealed. They shall bear blossoms with the fall; I have their word for this, Who tend my roots with rains of gall, And suns of prejudice. Countee Cullen's poetry is illustrated with 16 decorative cuts created by Charles Cullen (no relation to the poet) in extravagant Art Deco style.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
ISBN:
9781609622749
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
104
Authors:
Countee Cullen
Published Date:
2022-11-27
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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