Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Hughes, Langston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067972818X ISBN 13: 9780679728184

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990

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Book by Hughes Langston

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A collection of the author's favorite poetry from published books, private publications, and unpublished manuscripts

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lication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America.  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 poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967 and represent work from his entire career, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Bl

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 067972818X
• ISBN 13: 9780679728184
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320