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Subject(s)

• Poetry [Browse]
• American poetry—20th century [Browse]
• American poetry—African American authors [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]
• Poetry [Browse]
• Novels [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Poems [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• novels [Browse]
• poetry [Browse]

Summary note

"Countee Cullen is already established as one of the vivid figures standing out from the younger group of modern poets. His first book, 'Color, ' attracted wide critical attention and praise. In 'Copper Sun' he has moved steadily on. Full of rich imagery, the subdued gaiety and naïveté of his race, and the sophistication of the modern intellectual, 'Copper Sun' presents many facets to the reader of poetry who demands something more than lyric prettiness. This new collection contains a number of poems which have been in great demand since their appearances in various magazines. It includes such distinguished poems as 'Confession, ' 'From the Dark Tower, ' 'Uncle Jim, ' 'The Litany of the Dark Peoples' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'"--Dust jack inside flap

Notes

Princeton copy 1 In original illustrated dust jacket.

Contents

• 1. Color
• From the dark tower
• Threnody for a brown girl
• Confession
• Uncle Jim
• Colored blues singer
• Colors
• The litany of the dark people
• 2. The deep in love
• Pity the deep in love
• One day we played a game
• Timid lover
• Nocturne
• Words to my love
• En passant
• Variations of a theme
• A song of sour grapes
• In memoriam
• Lament
• If love be staunch
• The spark
• Song of the rejected lover
• To one who was cruel
• Sonnet to a scornful lady
• The love tree
• 3. At Cambridge
• The wind bloweth where it listeth
• Thoughts in a zoo
• Two thoughts of death
• The poet puts his heart to school
• Love's way
• Portrait of a lover
• An old story
• To lovers of earth : fair warning
• 4. Varia
• In spite of death
• Cor cordium
• Lines to my father
• Protest
• An epitaph
• Scandal and gossip
• Youth sings a song of rosebuds
• Hunger
• Lines to our elders
• The poet
• More than a fool's song
• And when I think
• Advice to a beauty
• Ultimatum
• Lines written in Jerusalem
• On the Mediterranean Sea
• Millennial
• At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
• To Endymion
• Epilogue
• 5. Juvenilia
• Open door
• Disenchantment
• Leaves
• Song
• The touch
• A poem once significant, now happily not
• Under the mistletoe.

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LCCN

27016151

OCLC

7850600

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