Countee Cullen’s first book of poems, published when he was twenty-two. It moves from the formal elegance of ‘Yet Do I Marvel’, with its famous closing couplet on God and a Black poet, through love lyrics to brown boys and girls, to the long meditation on Africa and identity in ‘Heritage’ and the brief, devastating ‘Incident’.
A landmark of the Harlem Renaissance and of American poetry. Download the free EPUB.