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BOOK REVIEW JACKSON
encounters with writers and publishers and his courtship and marriage. In Chapter Two, "The Poetry of Cullen," there is a stimulating critical commentary on his works, both poetry and prose. It is here that Miss Perry demonstrates her critical sense in being able to understand all of the forces that touched the life of Cullen. In Chapter Three, there is a quickly drawn overview of the attitude of critics towards the work of Cullen. His works were reviewed by most of the major publications in this country. Unfortunately, the commentaries on Cullen, the poet, and man, are all too brief. It would have added a much deeper dimension in viewing his life and work if we could have learned more about him. There is always a need to understand the forces involved in the creative process in our artists. 
    The second part of the book is a complete bibliography which includes all of his major writings: his books and a complete list of their reviews, articles, individual poems, plays, short stories and recorded works. Also, there is a complete listing of his unpublished works, which includes short stories, drama and poetry. One senses the wide range of Cullen's audience when seeing the many sources that recognized his talent. The writings about him appeared in newspapers, magazines and in parts of books of literary criticism. 
    The final chapter is a complete list of over 100 anthologies published in several languages that included Cullen's poetry. 
    The movement needs more works of this kind because of its unique approach to Countee Cullen and his work. It points the way and serves as a model of what must be done for Black writers and by Black bibliographers. 
Miles M. Jackson

UNEARTHING THE BLACK PRESS

THE BLACK PRESS, 1827-1890: The Quest for National Identity. Edited with an introduction by Martin E. Dann. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 384 pages. $7.95.

TODAY'S MILITANTS, Black and white, often have the foggest ideas concerning the efforts of earlier strivers in the cause of Black freedom. Some for instance look on the Black press as a bourgeois institution completely beholden to the "accommodationist" ideas of Booker T. Washington, et al, in the early years of this century

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