Description: Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.
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Book Title: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes : a Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1990
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, American / African American, Subjects & Themes / Places, General
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 9 Oz
Author: Langston Hughes
Item Length: 8 in
Book Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
