Countee Cullen was a prominent poet during the Harlem Renaissance. Copper Sun features over fifty poems exploring the emotional consequences of race, religion, and sexuality during Jazz Age America. Includes 17 Art Deco illustrations.
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Countee Cullen was a prominent poet during the Harlem Renaissance. Copper Sun features over fifty poems exploring the emotional consequences of race, religion, and sexuality during Jazz Age America. Includes 17 Art Deco illustrations.
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Countee Cullen (190346) was an African American poet, playwright, and novelist and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Copper Sun, a collection of over fifty poems, is his second book of poetry. Cullen explores the emotional consequences of race, religion, and sexuality in Jazz Age America. His lyrics are moving, eloquent, and poignant and are as powerful today as when they were first published nearly a century ago. Accompanied by seventeen beautiful Art Deco illustrations from the original publication, his poems will open up conversations about courage, heartache, identity, love, and more while nourishing your spirit every step along the way.
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Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was a poet, playwright, novelist, and leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. A graduate of both Harvard University and and New York University, Copper Sun is his second poetry collection, focusing on Cullen's experiences as a black, Christian, bisexual man in the 1920s and 30s. His poems are accompanied by sixteen contemporary Art-Deco illustrations by Charles Cullen (no relation).
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