02685cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000320012624500360015824600380019425000180023226400510025030000470030133600260034833700260037433800360040050000310043650801880046752013980065553400720205365300320212570000320215785600720218985600430226199900190230477442UtSlPG20260610134808.0mcr n260607r20251929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a29024220  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCullen, Countee,d1903-194614aThe Black Christ, & other poems1 aThe Black Christ, and other poems  aFirst edition 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-12-11  aSean/IB@DP, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aThe Black Christ, & other poems by Countee Cullen is a collection of poetry written in the early 20th century, during the Harlem Renaissance era. It weaves lyric and narrative verse to probe race, faith, love, and mortality, with the central motif of suffering transfigured by spiritual vision.

The book’s shorter sequences (“Varia” and “Interlude”) offer compact meditations on desire, pride, art, doubt, and parting; “Color” turns to Black history and identity, praising Black sovereignty and rebuking narrow expectations of “racial” themes. The title narrative poem sets a devout Southern mother, her doubting elder son, and her proud younger son Jim against the terror of Jim Crow. In springtime beauty, a white man’s slur and blow provoke Jim to strike back; a mob gathers. As Jim hides, a radiant figure—Christ in Jim’s semblance—steps forward, asks mercy for the innocent, and is lynched upon a nearby tree, recasting the Passion on Southern soil. Grief shatters the narrator’s unbelief until the brother reappears alive and the tree flowers, sealing a miracle that turns his scorn into faith. In the book’s closing notes, the family moves on to a gentler life, the mother’s trust endures, and the speaker vows to see every human burden borne beside a Black Christ who returns in the faces of the oppressed. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929  aAfrican Americans -- Poetry1 aCullen, Charles,d1888-19394 uhttps://archive.org/details/blackchristother00cull/page/n7/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77442  c118162d118162