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Original Title:	Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
ISBN:	067972818X (ISBN13: 9780679728184)
Edition Language:	English

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Langston Hughes

Paperback | Pages: 297 pages

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Title	:	Selected Poems
Author	:	Langston Hughes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 297 pages
Published	:	September 12th 1990 by Vintage (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Cultural. African American. Literature

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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 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.

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Hughes uses loose rhythmic free verse to capture Black vernacular, experience, hope.

Selected Poems of Langston HughesJames Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, socialist, homosexual and columnist. He began writing poetry when he was a young teenager. His newspaper column ran for twenty years in the 1940s and 1950s. Hughes uses the rhythms of African American music, particularly blues and jazz in his poetry. Later in his life Langston Hughes was called the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race," a title

Remembering university classes and the first ones that never die...DreamHold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.Hold fast to the dreamsFor when dreams golife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow.

I'm always talking about Langston Hughes to my students and especially his poem "I, too sing America" but never read more than a few of his poems, and so I had a certain idea about his style and topics... What a surprise! I discovered other aspects about Langston Hughes that I didn't even suspect: his humour, his concern about women. I felt a range of emotions: sadness, happiness, shame, doubt,... I knew his fight for freedom and for equality, but I didn't know that he was a great storyteller!

The speaker catches firelooking at their faces.His wordsjump down to standin listener's places.The majority of these appear to be but lyrics, slinking, slight. Maybe slivers. Reflective and jagged. I struggle again with questions unposed.I dont imagine this collection will change many lives but there remains a necessary presence as we idly ignore our origins. I see the tropes today. Just below the haze and away from the anger.

What can I possibly write that embodies Langston Hughes that his work doesn't encapsulate itself? Briefly, he laments longingly, like a one man jazz band at his typewriter as the cover of the book depicts, cigarettes and booze by his side to calm his soul, while he rhythmically pounds out verse about love. Lust and lost. Suicide and salvation. Slavery and freedom. Matters of the heart and the heart of the city. Music and dreams and reality, my eyes open to his prophetic intonations:Who But the

Good to read in long stretches. Poems flow from one to the next.