Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes

In 1960, the NAACP presented its highest honor the Spingarn Medal to. 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. Review: ‘Selected Letters of Langston Hughes’ a glimpse of enigmatic poet. Langston Hughes (19021967), a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most influential and esteemed writers of the twentieth century, was born in Joplin, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Kansas before moving to Harlem.

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.” Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.

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. 1902 (Joplin) 1967 (New York City) James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. From 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. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes / Langston, Hughes ISBN: 067972818X Uniform titles: Poems.

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes