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

    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 himse... [Read More]
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 067972818X
    • ASIN: 067972818X
    • ISBN: 067972818X
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)

    "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston GlobeSpanning 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 Poe... [Read More]
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0679764089
    • ASIN: 0679764089
    • ISBN: 0679764089
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

    From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common language.
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0375405518
    • ASIN: 0375405518
    • ISBN: 0375405518
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

    Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it was in 1932.
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0679883479
    • UPC: 884884003308
    • ASIN: 0679883479
    • ISBN: 9780679883470
    • Brand: Knopf Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

  • The Weary Blues

    Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening “Proem” (prologue poem)—“I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa”—Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their voices were newly being heard in our literature. As the legendary Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 edition, “His cabaret songs throb with the true jazz rhythm; his sea-pieces ache with a calm, melancholy lyricism; he cries bitterly from the heart of his race . . . Always, however, his stanzas are subje... [Read More]
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0385352972
    • ASIN: 0385352972
    • ISBN: 0385352972
    • Brand: Knopf Publishing Group
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

    WINNER OF THE 2007 CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR AWARD! A fresh design and appealing new cover enliven this award-winning collection in the acclaimed Poetry for Young People series. Showcasing the extraordinary Langston Hughes, it's edited by two leading poetry experts and features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews that adds rich dimension to the words. Hughes's magnificent, powerful words still resonate today, and the anthologized poems in this splendid volume include his best-loved works: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “My People”; “Words Like Freedom”; “Harlem”; and “I, Too”--his sharp, pointed response to Walt Whitman's “I Hear America Singing.” 
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 1454903287
    • ASIN: 1454903287
    • ISBN: 1454903287
    • Brand: Brand: Sterling Children's Books
    • Manufacturer: Sterling Children's Books

  • Vintage Hughes

    Arguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, Langston Hughes was a great poet and a shrewd and lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. Vintage Hughes includes the 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”; ... [Read More]
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 1400034027
    • ASIN: 1400034027
    • ISBN: 1400034027
    • Brand: Hughes, Langston
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Best of Simple: Stories (American Century)

    Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition.Simple might be considered an Everyman for black Americans. Hughes himself wrote: "...these tales are about a great many people--although they are stories about no specific persons as such. But it is impossible to live in Harlem and not know at least a hundred Simples, fifty Joyces, twenty-five Zaritas, and several Cousin Minnies--or reasonable facsi... [Read More]
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: B015MP6J98
    • ASIN: B015MP6J98
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

  • Essential Langston Hughes CD (Caedmon Essentials)

    A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own commentary and reflections, on CD for the first time!Collection includes: One Way Ticket • The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Puzzled • Trumpet Player • Ballad of the Gypsy • Kid Sleepy • Southern Mammy Songs • Migrant • Mama and Daughter • Sylvester's Dying Bed • Intern at Provident Hospital • Merry-Go-Round • Ku Klux Klan • The South • Mulatto • Out of Work • The Explanation of Our Times • Dinner Guest: Me • Cultural Exchange • Along with commentary and reflections from the author
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0061336947
    • ASIN: 0061336947
    • ISBN: 0061336947
    • Manufacturer: Caedmon

  • Not Without Laughter (Dover Thrift Editions)

    A shining star of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes is one of modern literature's most revered African-American authors. Although best known for his poetry, Hughes produced in Not Without Laughter a powerful and pioneering classic novel.This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager; Jimboy, Sandy's father, who travels the country looking for work; Aunt Tempy, the social climber; and Aunt Harriet, the blues singer who has turned away from her faith.A fascinating chronicle of a fa... [Read More]
    Langston Hughes Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0486454487
    • ASIN: 0486454487
    • ISBN: 9780486454481
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

    A comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Huges contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, is arranged chronologically, and features commentary by Hughes's biographer. Reprint. 15,000 first
    Langston Hughes Best Poems
    "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston GlobeSpanning 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

    • UPC: 379545
    • Rating: 4.714

  • Selected Poems of Langston Hughes : A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse

    A collection of the author's favorite poetry from published books, private publications, and unpublished
    Langston Hughes Best Poems
    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

    • UPC: 380610
    • Rating: 4.333

  • Hughes: Poems

    From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common
    Langston Hughes Best Poems
    From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common

    • UPC: 25675619
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

    Sixty-six poems selected by the author include lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the Black
    Langston Hughes Best Poems
    Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it was in

    • UPC: 378123
    • Rating: 4.8

  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

    A collection of sixty-six poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black
    Langston Hughes Best Poems
    Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available ina handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after "The Dream Keeper" was first published. In a larger format, featuringBrian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirationalmessage to young people is as relevant today as it was in 1932. "There's nobetter way to show kids what poetry is about than to share thiscollection."--

    • UPC: 164718298
    • Rating: 4.8

  • VG+_1961 LP_LANGSTON HUGHES_THE BEST OF SIMPLE_Read By MELVIN STEWART_FOLKWAYS

    • UPC: 174209455952
    • Category: Records
    • Price: 9 USD

  • 5 Poems by Langston Hughes

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    "Mother to Son" Langston Hughes poem GREAT Viola Davis voice--then POET HIMSELF RECITES!

    Mother To Son By Langston Hughes Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor...
    Mother To Son,Langston Hughes (Author)