And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen by Molesworth, Charles
And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen by Molesworth, Charles

And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen

While competing with Langston Hughes for the title of "Poet Laureate of Harlem," Count e Cullen (1903-46)...
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Author: Charles Molesworth
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And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen by Molesworth, Charles

And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen

$124.26
And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen by Molesworth, Charles

And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen

$124.26
Author: Charles Molesworth
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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While competing with Langston Hughes for the title of "Poet Laureate of Harlem," Count e Cullen (1903-46) crafted poems that became touchstones for American readers, both black and white. Inspired by classic themes and working within traditional forms, Cullen shaped his poetry to address universal questions like love, death, longing, and loss while also dealing with the issues of race and idealism that permeated the national conversation. Drawing on the poet's unpublished correspondence with contemporaries and friends like Hughes, Claude McKay, Carl Van Vechten, Dorothy West, Charles S. Johnson and Alain Locke, and presenting a unique interpretation of his poetic gifts, And Bid Him Sing is the first full-length critical biography of this famous American writer. Despite his untimely death at the age of forty-two, Cullen left behind an extensive body of work. In addition to five books of poetry, he authored two much-loved children's books and translated Euripides' Medea, the first translation by an African American of a Greek tragedy. In these pages, Charles Molesworth explores the many ways that race, religion, and Cullen's sexuality informed the work of one of the unquestioned stars of the Harlem Renaissance. An authoritative work of biography that brings to life one of the chief voices of his generation, And Bid Him Sing returns to us one of America's finest lyric poets in all of his complexity and musicality.



Author: Charles Molesworth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/01/2012
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780226533643


Review Citation(s):
Essence 10/01/2012 pg. 100
Booklist 09/15/2012 pg. 12
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2013 pg. 6
New York Review of Books 03/21/2013 pg. 42
Choice 03/01/2013

About the Author

Charles Molesworth is coauthor of Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher and the editor of The Works of Alain Locke. He writes a regular art column for the quarterly, Salmagundi.




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