The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
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Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Total Pages : 738
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ISBN-10 : 9780679426318
ISBN-13 : 0679426310
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Synopsis The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by : James Langston Hughes

Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.

The Weary Blues

The Weary Blues
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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages : 99
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ISBN-10 : 9780486850566
ISBN-13 : 0486850560
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Synopsis The Weary Blues by : Langston Hughes

Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.

Freedom's Plow

Freedom's Plow
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 20
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105002406721
ISBN-13 :
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Synopsis Freedom's Plow by : Langston Hughes

Vintage Hughes

Vintage Hughes
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015058068837
ISBN-13 :
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Synopsis Vintage Hughes by : Langston Hughes

Presents selected works from "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," and "The Ways of White Folks."

I, Too, Am America

I, Too, Am America
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Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1442420081
ISBN-13 : 9781442420083
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis I, Too, Am America by : Langston Hughes

Winner of the Coretta Scott King illustrator award, I, Too, Am America blends the poetic wisdom of Langston Hughes with visionary illustrations from Bryan Collier in this inspirational picture book that carries the promise of equality. I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Langston Hughes was a courageous voice of his time, and his authentic call for equality still rings true today. Beautiful paintings from Barack Obama illustrator Bryan Collier accompany and reinvent the celebrated lines of the poem "I, Too," creating a breathtaking reminder to all Americans that we are united despite our differences. This picture book of Langston Hughes’s celebrated poem, "I, Too, Am America," is also a Common Core Text Exemplar for Poetry.

Let America Be America Again

Let America Be America Again
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9780192855046
ISBN-13 : 0192855042
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Let America Be America Again by : Langston Hughes

A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes. Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record of a remarkable man talking. In texts ranging from early interviews in the 1920s, when he was a busboy and scribbling out poems on hotel napkins, to major speeches, such as his keynote address at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966, Hughes's words further amplify the international reputation he established over the course of five decades through more widely-published and well-known poems, stories, novels, and plays. In these interviews, speeches, and conversational essays, the writer referred to by admirers as the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race" and the "Dean of Black Letters" articulated some of his most powerful critiques of fascism, economic and racial oppression, and compromised democracy. It was also through these genres that Hughes spoke of the responsibilities of the Black artist, documented the essential contributions of Black people to literature, music, and theatre, and chronicled the substantial challenges that Black artists face in gaining recognition, fair pay, and professional advancement. And it was through these pieces, too, that Hughes built on his celebrated work in other literary genres to craft an original, tragic-comic persona--a Blues poet in exile, forever yearning for and coming back to a home, a nation, that nevertheless continues to disappoint and harm him. A global traveler, Hughes's words, "Let America be America Again" were, throughout his career, always followed by a caveat: "America never was America to me."

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333)

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333)
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781598536669
ISBN-13 : 1598536664
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333) by : Kevin Young

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition in a single indispensable volume, African American Poetry reveals as never before its centrality and its challenge to American poetry and culture. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people like Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voice their passionate resistance to slavery. Young’s fresh, revelatory presentation of the Harlem Renaissance reexamines the achievements of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen alongside works by lesser-known poets such as Gwendolyn B. Bennett and Mae V. Cowdery. The later flowering of the still influential Black Arts Movement is represented here with breadth and originality, including many long out-of-print or hard-to-find poems. Here are all the significant movements and currents: the nineteenth-century Francophone poets known as Les Cenelles, the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks, the early 1960s Umbra group, and the more recent work of writers affiliated with Cave Canem and the Dark Room Collective. Here too are poems of singular, hard-to-classify figures: the enslaved potter David Drake, the allusive modernist Melvin B. Tolson, the Cleveland-based experimentalist Russell Atkins. This Library of America volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events.

The Darkness Around Us is Deep

The Darkness Around Us is Deep
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Publisher : Harper Perennial
Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : 0060553286
ISBN-13 : 9780060553289
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Darkness Around Us is Deep by : William Stafford

Poems deal with parents, Western landscapes, Native Americans, peace, childhood, nature, and the past.

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes (100th Anniversary Edition)

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes (100th Anniversary Edition)
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Publisher : Poetry for Young People
Total Pages : 60
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ISBN-10 : 1454943750
ISBN-13 : 9781454943754
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes (100th Anniversary Edition) by : Langston Hughes

Celebrate 100 years of Langston Hughes's powerful poetry. A Coretta Scott King Honor Award recipient, Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes includes 26 of the poet's most influential pieces, including: "Mother to Son"; "My People"; "Words Like Freedom"; "I, Too"; and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"--Hughes's first published piece, which was originally released in June 1921. This collection is curated and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, two leading poetry experts. It also features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews and a new foreword by Renée Watson, a Newbery Honor Award recipient and founder of the I, Too Arts Collective.

The Epic of America

The Epic of America
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Publisher : Simon Publications
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 1931541337
ISBN-13 : 9781931541336
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Epic of America by : James Truslow Adams

A beautifully written story of America's historical heritage, by one of the country's greatest historians.