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Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780826213419 |
Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) brilliantly fused the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of Harlem life as both a triumph of hope and a deepening crisis ("What happens to a dream deferred?"). In the tumultuous following years, he refused to relinquish the mantle of the poet, as may be seen in his inspired last two books of verse, Ask Your Mama (1961) and The Panther and the Lash (1967). The former demonstrates Hughes's continuing alertness to the significance of black music as a guide to American reality; here, avant-garde jazz rhythms and allusions fueled an intensity of language that predicted the cultural upheavals of the sixties and seventies. Hughes's last volume, combining old and new poems, emphasized the struggle for civil rights in the face of reactionary defiance, on the one hand, and the volatility of Black Power, on the other. Vigorous and versatile to the end, Hughes concluded his career as he had begun it: a master poet dedicated to observing and celebrating African American culture in its full complexity
Author | : James Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : 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 | : Anthony Conran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jorge Luis Borges |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Argentine poetry |
ISBN | : 9780140180312 |
A selection of poems by the Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges from the period of 1923-1967.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1997-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142992411X |
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes 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. 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.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0385353561 |
This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and—above all—literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his father (who opposed Langston’s literary ambitions), and to friends, fellow artists, critics, and readers who sought him out by mail. These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Kurt Weill, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Muhammad Ali. The letters tell the story of a determined poet precociously finding his mature voice; struggling to realize his literary goals in an environment generally hostile to blacks; reaching out bravely to the young and challenging them to aspire beyond the bonds of segregation; using his artistic prestige to serve the disenfranchised and the cause of social justice; irrepressibly laughing at the world despite its quirks and humiliations. Venturing bravely on what he called the “big sea” of life, Hughes made his way forward always aware that his only hope of self-fulfillment and a sense of personal integrity lay in diligently pursuing his literary vocation. Hughes’s voice in these pages, enhanced by photographs and quotations from his poetry, allows us to know him intimately and gives us an unusually rich picture of this generous, visionary, gratifyingly good man who was also a genius of modern American letters.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780826213396 |
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1999-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes.
Author | : Anthony Conran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780950322100 |
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2011-10-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0307949397 |
Hughes's last collection of poems commemorates the experience of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear—the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time. “Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color. Here, Hughes's voice—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful—is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as "Prime," "Motto," "Dream Deferred," "Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895," "Still Here," "Birmingham Sunday." " History," "Slave," "Warning," and "Daybreak in Alabama."