Vintage Hughes - The Poetry Shop

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Vintage Hughes - The Poetry Shop

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Vintage Hughes

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The perfect introduction to one of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerful stories.

"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience." The Philadelphia Inquirer

Hughes's work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.

Vintage Hughes includes the famed poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "I, Too," "The Weary Blues," "America," "Let America Be America Again," "Dream Variations," "Young Sailor," "Afro-American Fragment," "Scottsboro," "The Negro Mother," "Good Morning Revolution," "I Dream a World," "The Heart of Harlem," "Freedom Train," "Song for Billie Holliday," "Nightmare Boogie," "Africa," "Black Panther," "Birmingham Sunday," and "UnAmerican Investigators"; and three stories from the collection The Ways of White Folks: "Cora Unashamed," "Home," and "The Blues I'm Playing."

Book Details

Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN:
9781400034024
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
208
Authors:
Langston Hughes
Published Date:
2004-01-06
Language:
English

About Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri, and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His debut collection, The Weary Blues (Alfred A. Knopf, 1926), was followed by work across poetry, fiction, and drama. He wrote the sequence Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), which contains his poem "Harlem," and the short fiction featuring the character Jesse B. Semple. He studied briefly at Columbia University and graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. The NAACP awarded him the Spingarn Medal in 1960.

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