A review by skersh68
Color by Countee Cullen

emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.5

Color by Countee Cullens was his first book of poetry that was published in 1925.  The book consists of 72 poems that includes his most notable works Heritage, Yet, Do I Marvel and Incident. It doesn’t stop there. Some of my favorites are A Brown Girl Dead, To A Brown Boy, Harlem Wine, Tableau, For A Poet, She of the Dancing Feet Sing and In Memory of Col. Charles Young. This is just a partial list. This collection of poems focuses on the main problems of the 20th century. Problems such as racial segregation that existed in the United States after slavery and during his time. Sadly, the color line is still an issue today.