Published when Countee Cullen was barely out of his twenties, Color announced one of the great lyric voices of the Harlem Renaissance, moving between classical form and unmistakably modern subjects: racial pride, quiet grief and the search for beauty inside injustice.
The collection made Cullen a literary star almost overnight and remains one of the era’s most technically accomplished bodies of poetry. Readers who love language handled with precision will find plenty to admire here.
