The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Hughes, Langston; Rampersad, Arnold, and Roessel, David E. (David Ernest) (Edited by)
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New York: Vintage Books, 1995. 717 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dogeared a few times. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Alongside such famous works as 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as 'Goodbye Christ' that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
Langston Hughes (1902 –1967) was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry during the Harlem Renaissance. "My People" The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
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- Title
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
- Author
- Hughes, Langston; Rampersad, Arnold, and Roessel, David E. (David Ernest) (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679764089
- ISBN 13
- 9780679764083
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo
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