Front matter
Reading edition
Other Books by
COUNTEE CULLEN
COLOR
COPPER SUN
THE BALLAD OF THE BROWN GIRL
CAROLING DUSK
An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets
Harper & Brothers Publishers
THE
BLACK CHRIST
& Other Poems
By
COUNTEE CULLEN
With Decorations by
CHARLES CULLEN
Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London
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The Black Christ & Other Poems Copyright 1929, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the U. S. A. *
FIRST EDITION
A Book for Three Friends
EDWARD
ROBERTA
HAROLD
¶ Acknowledgment for permission to reprint certain of these poems is made to the following magazines and collections in the pages of which they first appeared:
The Century
The New Republic
Harper’s Magazine
Opportunity
The Crisis
Tambour
Ebony and Topaz
The Poetry Folio
Palms
The Archive
Time and Tide
The London Observer
¶ Grateful appreciation is also conveyed to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation by the aid of whose grant many of these poems were written.