Color
Countee Cullen
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their ancestors were kidnapped and rooted in the white supremacist society where they live. With poems about love, tradition, the intertwined lives of Black people and whites, and the experience of a "Negro in a day like this," Color is a profound early work of the Harlem Renaissance. The collection’s most famous poem is "Heritage". (Summary by Mike Overby) (1 hr 32 min)
Chapters
To You Who Read My Book | 3:15 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
[Color] Yet Do I Marvel | 1:07 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
A Song of Praise | 1:18 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Brown Boy to Brown Girl | 1:13 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
A Brown Girl Dead | 0:47 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
To a Brown Girl | 0:55 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
To a Brown Boy | 0:59 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Black Magdalens | 1:09 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Atlantic City Waiter | 1:08 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Near White | 0:37 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Tableau | 0:58 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Harlem Wine | 0:56 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks | 1:10 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Incident | 0:59 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Two Who Crossed a Line (She Crosses) | 1:28 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Two Who Crossed a Line (He Crosses) | 1:15 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Saturday's Child | 1:27 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
The Dance of Love | 1:22 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Pagan Prayer | 1:52 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Wisdom Cometh With the Years | 1:10 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
To My Fairer Brethren | 0:52 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Fruit of the Flower | 1:45 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
The Shroud of Color | 13:11 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Heritage | 5:52 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
[Epitaphs] For a Poet | 0:48 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For My Grandmother | 0:33 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Cynic | 0:34 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Singer | 0:32 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Virgin | 0:35 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Lady I Know | 0:36 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Lovely Lady | 0:35 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For an Atheist | 0:36 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For an Evolutionist and His Opponent | 0:34 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For an Anarchist | 0:35 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Magician | 0:34 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Pessimist | 0:34 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Mouthy Woman | 0:38 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Philosopher | 0:36 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For an Unsuccessful Sinner | 0:40 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Fool | 0:35 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For One Who Gayly Sowed His Oats | 0:39 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Skeptic | 0:36 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Fatalist | 0:38 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For Daughters of Magdalen | 0:38 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Wanton | 0:38 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For a Preacher | 0:37 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For One Who Died Singing of Death | 0:38 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty | 0:37 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For Hazel Hall, American Poet | 0:38 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For Paul Lawrence Dunbar | 0:38 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For Joseph Conrad | 0:41 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
For Myself | 0:39 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
All the Dead | 0:40 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
[For Love's Sake] Oh, for a Little While, Be Kind | 1:15 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
If You Should Go | 0:42 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
To One Who Said Me Nay | 1:07 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Advice to Youth | 0:46 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Caprice | 0:46 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Sacrament | 0:48 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Bread and Wine | 0:52 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Spring Reminiscence | 0:56 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
[Varia] Suicide Chant | 1:06 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
She of the Dancing Feet Sings | 1:14 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Judas Iscariot | 4:39 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
The Wise | 1:08 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Mary, Mother of Christ | 0:44 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Dialogue | 1:44 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
In Memory of Col. Charles Young | 1:13 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
To My Friends | 1:22 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Gods | 1:00 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
To John Keats, Poet. At Springtime | 2:38 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
On Going | 0:56 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Harsh World That Lashest Me | 2:13 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |
Requiescam | 0:51 | Read by Michael MacTaggert |