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Countee Cullen within: Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1925 and Yearbook of American Poetry.
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First edition, thus. The thirteenth anthology edited by African-American poet and critic William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), known for his instinctive talent in identifying poetic genius. Countee Cullen is represented with two poems: “Heritage” (p. 84) and “Threnody for a Brown Girl” (p. 86). The latter poem won the John Reed Me morial Prize awarded in 1925 by Poetry magazine. Julia Johnson Davis contributes “De Gospel Train” (p. 99). As noted in Blockson 101, “Braithwaite’s perceptive and extraordinary instinctive gift of discovering the poetic genius has no doubt earned him the title of ‘Afro-American Anthologist of the Twentieth Century.’”
Description: Countee Cullen within: Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1925 and Yearbook of American Poetry.
Boston: B.J. Brimmer Company, 1925. Octavo. Pp. xxxiv, [1]–383 (Part 1. Anthology of Magazine Verse For 1925); [1]–208 (Part 2. Yearbook of American Poetry For 1925). Hardcover in the publisher’s quarter cloth and boards with printed title labels; lacking the rare dust jacket. Partly unopened. Spine label toned; minute tears to the fore-edge of the initial gatherings; very good.
[3734892]Price: $75.00