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Vintage Classics Ser.: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes : A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse by Langston Hughes (1990, Trade Paperback)

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With the publication 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 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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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
067972818x
ISBN-13
9780679728184
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038689932

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Book Title
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes : a Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
Author
Langston Hughes
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, American / African American, Subjects & Themes / Places, General
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3515.U274a6 1990
Reviews
"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Lccn
90-050179
Dewey Decimal
811.52
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Vintage Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
20

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Great if you're into poems! confusing if you're not
I bought this book because it was a required read for a composition class that I am taking. I do not care for his "Poems" and really didn't understand some of there meaning until going over it with the class. If your someone who likes poems and that kind of stuff then the book would be "great" but if not it's hard to understand meanings behind the peoms unless told

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