Book description
The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine).
Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order…
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While many of the these wonderful poems were published over a century ago, they are as relevant today as they were then. Hughes charts the pain, suffering, and joys of being Afro-American in a country that was then, and is still now, a very racist place. But the book is neither a polemic nor merely a plea for a downtrodden people. It presents equally the heartfelt joys and deep pleasures the world affords us. One of my favorites is “Mother to Son,” advice that a black mother bestows upon a son, telling him that the uphill climb in life is…
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