On These I Stand (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Countée Porter
- First Published: 1947
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Justice, Culture, Africa or Africans, Racism, Love or romance, Race, Nature, Interracial relationships, Social issues, Friendship, Spiritual life or spirituality, Ethnic relations, Pain, Oppression, Christianity, Death or dying
The Work
On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countée Cullen is a collection of the formerly published poems for which Countée Cullen wanted to be remembered. Written during the 1920’s and 1930’s, these poems are from such works as Color (1925), Copper Sun (1927), The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1928), The Black Christ and Other Poems (1929), and The Medea and Some Poems (1935). Cullen also includes six new poems on subjects ranging from a tribute to John Brown (“A Negro Mother’s Lullaby”) to the evolution from...
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