Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Hughes, Langston |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 1/6/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The perfect introduction to one of the most
important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerful stories.
“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature … a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” The Philadelphia Inquirer
Hughes’s work blends elements of blues and jazz,speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.
Vintage Hughes includesthe famed poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “I, Too,” “The Weary Blues,” “America,” “LetAmerica Be America Again,” “Dream Variations,” “Young Sailor,” “Afro-American Fragment,”“Scottsboro,” “The Negro Mother,” “Good Morning Revolution,” “I Dream a World,” “TheHeart of Harlem,” “Freedom Train,” “Song for Billie Holliday,” “Nightmare Boogie,”“Africa,” “Black Panther,” “Birmingham Sunday,” and “UnAmerican Investigators”; andthree stories from the collection The Ways of White Folks: “Cora Unashamed,” “Home,”and “The Blues I’m Playing.”
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