Hughes: Poems: Edited by David RoesselFrom 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. |
Contents
The Negro Speaks of Rivers | 17 |
Lament for Dark Peoples | 30 |
Midwinter Blues | 43 |
Ladys Boogie | 213 |
Blues at Dawn | 227 |
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