Color 1925 is a collection of poems by Countee Cullen. Published the same year Cullen entered Harvard to pursue a masters in English Color was a brilliant debut by a poet who had already gained a reputation as a leading young artist of the Harlem Renaissance. Deeply personal and attuned to poetic tradition Cullens verses capture the spirit of creative inquiry that defined a generation of writers musicians painters and intellectuals while changing the course of American history itself.ampampquotOver three centuries removed From the scenes his fathers loved Spicy grove cinnamon tree What is Africa to meampampquot In ampampquotHeritageampampquot Cullen investigates his relationship with the past as a black man raised in a nation his people were forced to build.