Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

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 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Selected Poems

Vintage · Tapa blanda

297 págs.

Sep 12, 1990

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Vintage · eBook

322 págs.

Oct 26, 2011

Selected Poems

Serpent's Tail · Tapa blanda

320 págs.

Oct 1, 2020

Selected Poems

Serpent's Tail · Tapa blanda

297 págs.

Jan 1, 1999

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Alfred A. Knopf · Tapa dura

297 págs.

Mar 23, 1959

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Vintage · eBook

320 págs.

Oct 26, 2011

Selected Poems

Vintage Books · Tapa blanda

297 págs.

Jan 1, 1974

Selected Poems

Alfred A. Knopf · Tapa dura

320 págs.

Jun 27, 1959

Selected Poems

Vintage Books · Tapa blanda

297 págs.

Apr 12, 1974

Selected Poems

Serpent's Tail · Tapa blanda

297 págs.

Jan 1, 1999

Selected Poems

Serpent's Tail · Tapa blanda

298 págs.

Feb 27, 1986

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Alfred A. Knopf · Tapa dura

Jan 1, 1959

Selected Poems Langston Hughes

Alfred A Knopf inc · Tapa dura

297 págs.

Jan 1, 1981

Selected poems

Knopf · Tapa dura

297 págs.

Jan 1, 1971

Selected Poems

Alfred A. Knopf · Tapa dura

Jan 1, 1969

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Alfred A. Knopf · Tapa dura

Jan 1, 1959

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Vintage Classics · Tapa blanda

Jan 1, 1959

[Selected Poems of Langston Hughes] (By: Langston Hughes) [published: November, 1990]

Vintage Books · Tapa blanda

Nov 1, 1990

Selected Poems - Signed, First Edition

Knopf. · Tapa dura

Jan 1, 1959

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