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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780679764083
Edition: 1st Vintage Classics Ed
ISBN: 0679764089
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: October 31, 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 31, 1995
Studio: Vintage
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This generous volume is a genuine literary milestone, the first comprehensive collection of the verse of a writer who has been called both the poet laureate of African America and our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. The book contains 860 poems, including all the verse that Hughes published during his lifetime, and nearly 300 that have never before appeared in book form.
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Great book and a great voice. It's better than a History Textbook in the times of the Black struggle during the 30's and 40's. I recommend it strongly for anyone who wants to teach or study modern Black History .
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Maybe I'm just hopeful on this day, but this seemed like as good a time as any to review this book. While some are dated and some are time-capsule, many of the best poems collected herein (all the poems that were published during his lifetime) are nearly as relevant today as the day they were written. Now we as a nation place enough emphasis on class and wallet capacity that we're more often (in the systemic sense) willing to look past skincolor (so long as the checks clear) that things have certainly ... Read More
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Langston Hughes: Poet, truth-teller, gifted wordsmith who can cover both the sacred and profane. A fighter, a dreamer, a student, a sailor. He speaks to everyone, any color or creed. He speaks to oppressed people who will never give up. He speaks to me, and to you. He speaks loudly and clearly, with a unique, indelible hand. His poems and stories stand tall...his defiance and dignity remains an inspiration to anyone who has had a "dream deferred", but "gathers out of cloud-dust, storm-dust, and splinters ... Read More
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The book is worth purchasing for the biographical background. His youth and adulthood were extremely tough and lonely. Hughes seems to have lost his religion early in life.
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Excellent book and historical treasure that I intend to pass down to my grandchildren in the future.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780679764083
Edition: 1st Vintage Classics Ed
ISBN: 0679764089
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: October 31, 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 31, 1995
Studio: Vintage