Selected Poems Of Langston Hughes
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Author |
: Langston Hughes |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 1990-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780679728184 |
ISBN-13 |
: 067972818X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by : Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. 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 collection includes "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.
Author |
: James Langston Hughes |
Publisher |
: Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages |
: 738 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780679426318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0679426310 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
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.
Author |
: Langston Hughes |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2011-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307949400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307949400 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by : Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. 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 collection includes "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.
Author |
: Langston Hughes |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 482 |
Release |
: 2015-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385353564 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385353561 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selected Letters of Langston Hughes by : Langston Hughes
This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and—above all—literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his father (who opposed Langston’s literary ambitions), and to friends, fellow artists, critics, and readers who sought him out by mail. These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Kurt Weill, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Muhammad Ali. The letters tell the story of a determined poet precociously finding his mature voice; struggling to realize his literary goals in an environment generally hostile to blacks; reaching out bravely to the young and challenging them to aspire beyond the bonds of segregation; using his artistic prestige to serve the disenfranchised and the cause of social justice; irrepressibly laughing at the world despite its quirks and humiliations. Venturing bravely on what he called the “big sea” of life, Hughes made his way forward always aware that his only hope of self-fulfillment and a sense of personal integrity lay in diligently pursuing his literary vocation. Hughes’s voice in these pages, enhanced by photographs and quotations from his poetry, allows us to know him intimately and gives us an unusually rich picture of this generous, visionary, gratifyingly good man who was also a genius of modern American letters.
Author |
: Langston Hughes |
Publisher |
: New York : Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1959 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106017680585 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selected Poems by : Langston Hughes
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 "brushed 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." Book jacket.
Author |
: Hilda Doolittle |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811210669 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811210669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selected Poems by : Hilda Doolittle
"Like every major artist she challenges the reader's intellect and imagination."--Boston Herald
Author |
: Langston Hughes |
Publisher |
: Poetry for Young People |
Total Pages |
: 60 |
Release |
: 2021-06 |
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.
Author |
: Henry L. Gates |
Publisher |
: Harper Perennial |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2000-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1567430295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781567430295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Langston Hughes by : Henry L. Gates
James Langston Hughes (1902 -- 1967) With a career that spanned the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and Black Arts movement of the sixties, Langston Hughes was the most prolific Black poet of his era. Between 1926, when he published his pioneering The Weary Blues, to 1967, the year of his death, when he published The Panther and the Lash, Hughes would write sixteen books of poems, two novels, seven collections of short stories, two autobiographies, five works of nonfiction, and nine children's books; he would edit nine anthologies of poetry, folklore, short fiction, and humor. He also translated Jaques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén, Gabriela Mistral, Federico Garcia Lorca, and write at least thirty plays. It is not surprising that Hughes was known, variously, as "Shakespeare in Harlem" and as the "poet laureate of the American Negro." -- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author |
: Sylvia Plath |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2016-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062669452 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062669451 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Collected Poems by : Sylvia Plath
Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction
Author |
: Langston Hughes |
Publisher |
: Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 1996-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780679883470 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0679883479 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by : Langston Hughes
Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it was in 1932.