My soul's high song : the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance /
Includes Cullen's poetry and prose, essays from The Crisis magazine, the complete text of his novel "One Way to Heaven", and an interview.
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New York :
Doubleday,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- From Color. Yet do I marvel
- A song of praise
- Brown boy to brown girl
- A brown girl dead
- To a brown girl
- Black Magdalens
- Atlantic City waiter
- Tableau
- Simon the Cyrenian speaks
- Two who crossed a line [she crosses]
- Two who crossed a line [he crosses]
- Incident
- Saturday's child
- Pagan prayer
- Wisdom cometh with the years
- Fruit of the flower
- The shroud of color
- Heritage
- For a poet
- For my grandmother
- For a lady I know
- For an atheist
- For an evolutionist and his opponent
- For an anarchist
- For a pessimist
- For daughters of Magdalen
- For a mouthy woman
- For John Keats, apostle of beauty
- For Paul Laurence Dunbar
- For Joseph Conrad
- For myself
- If you should go
- Spring reminiscence
- She of the dancing feet sings
- Judas Iscariot
- The wise
- To John Keats, poet, at spring time
- Song of praise
- Harsh world that lashest me
- Requiescam.
- From Copper Sun. From the dark tower
- Threnody for a brown girl
- Uncle Jim
- Colored blues singer
- Colors
- The litany of the dark people
- Pity the deep in love
- One day we played a game
- Variations on a theme
- A song of sour grapes
- Lament
- The love tree
- The wind bloweth where it listeth
- Thoughts in a zoo
- Two thoughts of death
- Love's way
- In spite of death
- Cor cordium
- Lines to my father
- Protest
- An epitaph
- Youth sings a song of rosebuds
- Hunger
- More than a fool's song
- Advice to a beauty
- Ultimatum
- At the wailing wall in Jerusalem
- To Endymion
- Epilogue.
- From The black Christ and other poems. To the three for whom the book
- Tribute
- That bright chimeric beast
- To an unknown poet
- Little sonnet to little friends
- Mood
- Counter mood
- Minutely hurt
- The foolish heart
- For Helen Keller
- Not Sacco and Vanzetti
- Self criticism
- A thorn forever in the breast
- The proud heart
- Therefore, adieu
- At a parting
- Dictum
- Bright bindings
- Black majesty
- Ghosts
- Song in spite of myself
- Nothing endures
- The street called crooked
- To certain critics
- The black Christ.
- From The Medea and some poems. After a visit
- Magnets
- Any human to another
- Only the polished skeleton
- To France
- Medusa
- Sonnet [1]
- Sonnet [2]
- Sonnet [3]
- To one not there
- Sonnet [4]
- Sonnet [5]
- Sonnet dialogue
- To France
- Death to the poor
- The cat
- Cats
- Scottsboro, too, is worth its song.
- The Medea
- The ballad of the brown girl : an old ballad retold.
- Uncollected poems. Dear friends and gentle hearts
- Karenge ya marenge
- Christus natus est
- Apostrophe to the land
- To the swimmer
- Life's rendezvous
- I have a rendezvous with life
- La belle, la douce, la grande
- A Negro mother's lullaby
- Lines for a hospital
- Judas Iscariot (first version)
- From life to love
- Night rain
- Singing in the rain
- The poet.
- One way to heaven.
- Essays and speeches. The development of creative expression
- from Opportunity magazine, April 1928. "The dark tower" column
- The League of Youth address
- Countee Cullen to his friends
- Countee Cullen on French courtesy
- Countee Cullen in England
- Countee Cullen on miscegenation.
- Appendix. Prologue and epilogue for The Medea
- "Rendezvous with life : an interview with Countee Cullen" / James Baldwin.