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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Contributor(s): Hughes, Langston (Author), Rampersad, Arnold (Editor)

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ISBN: 0679764089     ISBN-13: 9780679764083
Publisher: Vintage
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1995
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Annotation: "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.
Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - African American
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places
Dewey: 811.52
LCCN: 96129974
Series: Vintage Classics
Physical Information: 1.85" H x 6.16" W x 9.17" L (2.24 lbs) 736 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Annotated, Ikids, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times 01/28/1996 pg. 32
New York Times 08/21/2005 pg. 20
 
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Publisher 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 in which he wrote them. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.

The collection spans five decades, and is comprised of 868 poems (nearly 300 of which never before appeared in book form) with annotations by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Alongside such famous works as The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes Hughes's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as Goodbye Christ that were once suppressed.

 
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