Representative of the body of Hughes’s poetry, the collection includes his best poems: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “The Weary Blues,” “Song for a Dark Girl,” “Sylvester’s Dying Bed,” “I, Too,” “Montage of a Dream Deferred,” and “Refugee in America.”. Hughes’s poetry is an exploration of black identity, not only the sorrows and tribulations faced by black Americans but also the warm joy and humor of Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Very Good. Item Price. $ Show Details. Description: Alfred Knopf: First edition is stated, pages, nicely illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. "This book "represents Langston Hughes's own decisions as to which of his poems he most wants to preserve and reprint." Jacket photo by . Mashing up poems written across his decades-long career as a writer, Langston Hughes's Selected Poems is a montage of fast-moving images that alternately capture the melancholy and the resilience of Black social life in America during the twentieth century's first half. The collection is divided into thirteen sections that familiarize readers with the vast scope of Hughes's interests: love, despair, racism, /5.
By Langston Hughes About this Poet Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. American author Langston Hughes, bd, was from Joplin, Missouri, and his writing knew no bounds. Herein are poems he selected before his death, from his many published and unpublished works. Langston Hughes. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, , in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a young child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband, before the family eventually settled in.
Very Good. Item Price. $ Show Details. Description: Alfred Knopf: First edition is stated, pages, nicely illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. "This book "represents Langston Hughes's own decisions as to which of his poems he most wants to preserve and reprint." Jacket photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 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. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—. Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years. Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream.
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