Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Langston Hughes, David Roessel (Editor)Series:Everyman's Library Pocket PoetsPublish date:1999-03-23Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780375405518ISBN-10:375405518UPC:9780375405518Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:6.55 x 4.47 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCRRW76R1R
Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common...
Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780375405518ISBN-10:375405518UPC:9780375405518Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:6.55 x 4.47 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCRRW76R1R
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia University. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," which appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine Opportunity, the winning poem being "The...
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