Bibliography
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POETRY
- Color (includes Heritage, Atlantic City Waiter, Near White, To a Brown Boy, For a Lady I Know, Yet Do I Marvel, Incident, The Shroud of Color, Oh, for a Little While Be Kind, Brown Boy to Brown Girl, and Pagan Prayer), Harper, 1925, reprinted, Arno Press, 1969.
- Copper Sun (includes If Love Be Staunch, The Love Tree, Nocturne, Threnody for a Brown Girl, and To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning), decorations by Charles Cullen, Harper, 1927.
- (Editor) Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, decorations by Aaron Douglas, Harper, 1927, reprinted, 1974.
- The Black Christ, and Other Poems (includes The Black Christ, Song of Praise, Works to My Love, In the Midst of Life, Self Criticism, To Certain Critics, and The Wish), decorations by Charles Cullen, Harper, 1929, reprinted, University Microfilms, 1973.
- The Medea, and Some Poems (includes translation of Euripides' play Medea, Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song, Medusa, The Cat, Only the Polished Skeleton, Sleep, After a Visit, and To France), Harper, 1935.
- On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen (includes Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts, Christus natus est, and some previously unpublished poems), Harper, 1947.
- My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance, edited, introduction by Gerald Early, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1991.
OTHER
- The Ballad of the Brown Girl: An Old Ballad Retold, illustrations and decorations by Charles Cullen, Harper, 1927.
- One Way to Heaven (novel), Harper, 1932, reprinted, AMS Press, 1975 (also see below).
- The Lost Zoo (a Rhyme for the Young, but Not Too Young), illustrations by Charles Sebree, Harper, 1940, new edition, with illustrations by Joseph Low, Follett, 1969, new edition illustrated by Brian Pinkney, Burdett (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1992.
- My Lives and How I Lost Them (juvenile; autobiography of fictional character Christopher Cat), drawings by Robert Reid Macguire, Harper, 1942, new edition, with illustrations by Rainey Bennett, Follett, 1971.
- (With Owen Dodson) The Third Fourth of July (one-act play), published in Theatre Arts, 1946.
- (With Arna Bontemps) St. Louis Woman (musical adaptation of Bontemps's novel God Sends Sunday; first produced at Martin Beck Theater in New York City, March 30, 1946), published in Black Theatre, edited by Lindsay Patterson, Dodd, 1971.
Also author of unpublished plays, including Let the Day Perish (with Waters Turpin), The Spirit of Peace, and Heaven's My Home (an adaptation, with Harry Hamilton, of Cullen's novel, One Way to Heaven), and of book reviews. Author of introduction to The House of Vanity by Frank Ankenbrand and Isaac Benjamin, Leibman Press, 1928. Contributor to America as Americans See It, edited by Fred J. Ringel, Harcourt, 1932. Contributor to Crisis, Phylon, Bookman, Harper's, American Mercury, Century, Nation, Poetry, and other periodicals.
