Color


Read by Michael MacTaggert

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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