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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9781400034024
ISBN: 1400034027
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: January 06, 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Studio: Vintage
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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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”; and three stories from the collection The Ways of White Folks: “Cora Unashamed,” “Home,” and “The Blues I’m Playing.”
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Langston Hughes is part of America's soul. I bought this book to add to our writers' group library because of this. Even in our very Anglo rural community Hughes' work speaks to us and it behooves us to listen.
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I just started this and, so far, it's an excellent survey of Hughes's work. Love the vibrancy & passion of his modern verse. So much history, emotion, and conviction here. If you are not familiar with his work, this might be a good start.
He's vital to American Literature.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9781400034024
ISBN: 1400034027
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: January 06, 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Studio: Vintage