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

Name: Caroling Dusk An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties
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ISBN: 9780806513492

ISBN-10: 0806513497

ISBN-13: 9780806513492

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Authors: Countee Cullen

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List price: $10.95
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Born in New York City, Countee Cullen was separated from his mother in early childhood. He was raised in part by the Reverend Frederick Cullen, a Methodist minister. In high school, Cullen was already praised for his poetry. The poem "Life's Rendezvous" was published in a high school literary magazine and won first prize in a citywide contest. Educated at New York University and Harvard University, Cullen worked as an assistant editor on the Urban League's Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, writing a monthly literary column. His many awards for poetry included the first Harmon Prize for distinguished achievement in literature by a black writer, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He taught…

Foreword
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes	p. 2
Death Song	p. 4
Life	p. 5
After the Quarrel	p. 5
Ships that Pass in the Night	p. 7
We Wear the Mask	p. 8
Sympathy	p. 8
The Debt	p. 9
The Tragedy of Pete	p. 11
The Way-side Well	p. 15
From the German of Uhland	p. 17
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	p. 18
The Creation	p. 19
The White Witch	p. 22
My City	p. 25
A Litany of Atlanta	p. 26
Scintilla	p. 31
Rye Bread	p. 31
October XXIX, 1795	p. 32
Del Cascar	p. 33
The New Negro	p. 34
Hushed by the Hands of Sleep	p. 36
Greenness	p. 36
The Eyes of My Regret	p. 37
Grass Fingers	p. 38
Surrender	p. 38
The Ways o' Men	p. 39
Tenebris	p. 40
When the Green Lies Over the Earth	p. 41
A Mona Lisa	p. 42
Paradox	p. 43
Your Hands	p. 44
I Weep	p. 45
For the Candle Light	p. 45
Dusk	p. 46
The Puppet Player	p. 46
A Winter Twilight	p. 46
Neighbors	p. 47
I Have a Friend	p. 47
Substitution	p. 48
Questing	p. 48
Life-long, Poor Browning	p. 49
Dunbar	p. 50
Innocence	p. 51
Creed	p. 51
Lines to a Nasturtium	p. 52
At the Carnival	p. 53
Morning Light	p. 55
Pansy	p. 56
Sassafras Tea	p. 56
Sky Pictures	p. 57
The Quilt	p. 58
The Baker's Boy	p. 58
Wild Roses	p. 59
Quoits	p. 59
Requiem	p. 61
When I Die	p. 62
Puck Goes to Court	p. 63
The Marathon Runner	p. 64
Words! Words!	p. 65
Touche	p. 66
Noblesse Oblige	p. 67
La Vie C'est la Vie	p. 69
The Return	p. 70
Rencontre	p. 70
Fragment	p. 70
Snow in October	p. 71
Sonnet	p. 72
I Sit and Sew	p. 73
Service	p. 75
Hope	p. 75
The Suppliant	p. 76
Little Son	p. 76
Old Black Men	p. 77
Lethe	p. 77
Proving	p. 77
I Want to Die While You Love Me	p. 78
Recessional	p. 79
My Little Dreams	p. 79
What Need Have I for Memory?	p. 80
When I Am Dead	p. 80
The Dreams of the Dreamer	p. 80
The Heart of a Woman	p. 81
America	p. 83
Exhortation: Summer, 1919	p. 84
Flame-heart	p. 85
The Wild Goat	p. 87
Russian Cathedral	p. 87
Desolate	p. 88
Absence	p. 91
My House	p. 92
Reapers	p. 94
Evening Song	p. 94
Georgia Dusk	p. 95
Song of the Son	p. 96
Cotton Song	p. 97
Face	p. 98
November Cotton Flower	p. 99
Rain Music	p. 100
Supplication	p. 101
An April Day	p. 102
The Deserter	p. 102
And What Shall You Say?	p. 103
The Band of Gideon	p. 103
The Walls of Jericho	p. 106
Poem	p. 107
Revelation	p. 107
That Hill	p. 109
To an Icicle	p. 110
Four Walls	p. 110
On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church	p. 112
To a Persistent Phantom	p. 113
Letters Found Near a Suicide	p. 114
Nigger	p. 120
Negro Woman	p. 122
Africa	p. 123
Transformation	p. 124
The Dark Brother	p. 124
Tanka I-VIII	p. 125
Japanese Hokku	p. 127
Day and Night	p. 129
Odyssey of Big Boy	p. 130
Maumee Ruth	p. 133
Long Gone	p. 134
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden	p. 136
Solutamus	p. 138
Challenge	p. 138
Return	p. 139
Joy	p. 140
Solace	p. 141
Interim	p. 142
The Mask	p. 143
I, Too	p. 145
Prayer	p. 146
Song for a Dark Girl	p. 147
Homesick Blues	p. 147
Fantasy in Purple	p. 148
Dream Variation	p. 149
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	p. 149
Poem	p. 150
Suicide's Note	p. 151
Mother to Son	p. 151
A House in Taos	p. 152
Quatrains	p. 155
Secret	p. 155
Advice	p. 156
To a Dark Girl	p. 157
Your Songs	p. 157
Fantasy	p. 158
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas	p. 159
Hatred	p. 160
Sonnet - 1	p. 160
Sonnet - 2	p. 161
The Return	p. 163
A Black Man Talks of Reaping	p. 165
To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country	p. 165
Nocturne at Bethesda	p. 166
Length of Moon	p. 168
Lancelot	p. 169
Gethsemane	p. 169
A Tree Design	p. 170
Blight	p. 170
The Day-breakers	p. 171
Close Your Eyes!	p. 171
God Give to Men	p. 172
Homing	p. 172
Golgotha Is a Mountain	p. 173
The Black Madonna	p. 177
To a Certain Woman	p. 178
I Have a Rendezvous with Life	p. 180
Protest	p. 181
Yet Do I Marvel	p. 182
To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning	p. 182
From the Dark Tower	p. 183
To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime	p. 184
Four Epitaphs	p. 186
Incident	p. 187
Inscription	p. 188
Auf Wiedersehen	p. 189
Night	p. 189
Confession	p. 190
Nocturne	p. 190
After All	p. 191
The Resurrection	p. 193
The Last Quarter Moon of the Dying Year	p. 195
Paean	p. 195
Nativity	p. 197
Rainy Season Love Song	p. 198
The Serving Girl	p. 200
Baby Cobina	p. 200
Northboun'	p. 201
To Melody	p. 204
Portrait	p. 204
Shadow	p. 206
Cavalier	p. 207
The Death Bed	p. 208
A Triviality	p. 209
I Think I See Him There	p. 210
Dust	p. 210
No Images	p. 212
The Radical	p. 212
True Love	p. 213
South Street	p. 214
Jungle Taste	p. 214
What Do I Care for Morning	p. 216
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem	p. 217
Summer Matures	p. 217
Poem	p. 218
Fulfillment	p. 219
The Road	p. 221
Bottled	p. 221
Magalu	p. 223
The Close of Day	p. 225
Me Alone	p. 227
Have You Seen It	p. 228
Robin Red Breast	p. 228
The Stream	p. 228
The Little Dandelion	p. 229
Dance	p. 229
Index	p. 231
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