Harlem Renaissance Poetry The Black Christ Countee Cullen 1st Ed. 1929 Poems Hc

  
THE BLACK CHRIST & OTHER POEMS. With decorations by Charles Cullen. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1929. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, light soiling to boards, rubbing wear to title on spine. Harlem Renaissance Poet, Charles Cullen, American, Poetry. Countee Cullen is one of the most representative voices of the Harlem Renaissance. His life story is essentially a tale of youthful exuberance and talent of a star that flashed across the African American firmament and then sank toward the horizon. A celebrated young man about Harlem, he had in print by 1929 several books of his own poems and a collection of poetry he edited. His letters from Harvard to his Harlem friend Harold Jackman exuded self-satisfaction and sometimes the snide intolerance of the enfant terrible.

Cullen may have reached his zenith in 1928. That year Cullen was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to write poetry in France, and he married Nina Yolande Du Bois, the daughter of W.

Du Bois, a man who for decades was the acknowledged leader of the African American intellectual community. Few social events in Harlem rivaled the magnitude of that event, and much of Harlem joined in the festivities that marked the joining of the Cullen and Du Bois lineages, two of its most notable families. To read Countee Cullen's work is to hear a voice as representative of the Harlem Renaissance as it is possible to find. HARLEM RENAISSANCE POETRY THE BLACK CHRIST COUNTEE CULLEN 1ST ED.