Book Description
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 : James Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0679426310
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 :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1943
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486850560
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.
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442420083
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.
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Presents selected works from "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," and "The Ways of White Folks."
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2022-08-25
Category :
ISBN : 0192855042
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."
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 1997-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 142992411X
Stories capturing “the vibrancy of Harlem life, the passions of ordinary black people, and the indignities of everyday racism” by “a great American writer” (Kirkus Reviews). This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963—the most comprehensive available—showcases Langston Hughes’s literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns in the decades that preceded the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes’s uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general. “[Hughes’s fiction] manifests his ‘wonder at the world.’ As these stories reveal, that wonder has lost little of its shine.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Author : Danez\ Smith
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1943735093
2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner "These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way–saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long, black movie repeats."–Marcus Wicker "Danez Smith's BLACK MOVIE is a cinematic tour-de-force that lets poetry vie with film for the honor of which medium can most effectively articulate the experience of Black America."–Rain Taxi
Author : William Stafford
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780060553289
Poems deal with parents, Western landscapes, Native Americans, peace, childhood, nature, and the past.
Author : James Truslow Adams
Publisher : Simon Publications
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781931541336
A beautifully written story of America's historical heritage, by one of the country's greatest historians.