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Informationen zum Autor Major Jackson is the author of three volumes of poetry: Holding Company, Hoops , and Leaving Saturn , and a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at the University of Vermont, and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review . Klappentext A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance! Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social! religious! racial! and personal in such books as Color! Copper Sun! and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems-"Heritage!" "Yet Do I Marvel"-are widely celebrated! but much of Cullen's work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity and beauty. This is volume #32 in The Library of America's American Poets Project series. Zusammenfassung A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance! Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social! religious! racial! and personal in such books as Color! Copper Sun ! and The Black Christ . Certain of his poems—“Heritage!” “Yet Do I Marvel”—are widely celebrated! but much of Cullen’s work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity and beauty. This is volume #32 in The Library of America’s American Poets Project series.
