5 Poems by Langston Hughes

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  • Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics)

    • ASIN: 067972818X
    • ISBN: 067972818X
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America.  The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the loves... [Read More]

  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)

    • ASIN: 0679764089
    • ISBN: 0679764089
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    "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 GlobeSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive s... [Read More]

  • Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

    • ASIN: 0375405518
    • ISBN: 0375405518
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

    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 ... [Read More]

  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

    • UPC: 884884003308
    • ASIN: 0679883479
    • ISBN: 9780679883470
    • Brand: Knopf Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

    Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it wa... [Read More]

  • The Weary Blues

    • ASIN: 0385352972
    • ISBN: 0385352972
    • Brand: Knopf Publishing Group
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening “Proem” (prologue poem)—“I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa”—H... [Read More]

  • Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

    • ASIN: 1454903287
    • ISBN: 1454903287
    • Brand: Brand: Sterling Children's Books
    • Manufacturer: Sterling Children's Books

    WINNER OF THE 2007 CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR AWARD! A fresh design and appealing new cover enliven this award-winning collection in the acclaimed Poetry for Young People series. Showcasing the extraordinary Langston Hughes, it's edited by two leading poetry experts and features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews that adds rich dimens... [Read More]

  • Vintage Hughes

    • ASIN: 1400034027
    • ISBN: 1400034027
    • Brand: Hughes, Langston
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Arguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, Langston Hughes was a great poet and a shrewd and lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. Vintage Hughes includes the poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “I, To... [Read More]

  • The Best of Simple: Stories (American Century)

    • ASIN: B015MP6J98
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

    Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, sto... [Read More]

  • Essential Langston Hughes CD (Caedmon Essentials)

    • ASIN: 0061336947
    • ISBN: 0061336947
    • Manufacturer: Caedmon

    A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own commentary and reflections, on CD for the first time!Collection includes: One Way Ticket • The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Puzzled • Trumpet Player • Ballad of the Gypsy • Kid Sleepy • Southern Mammy Songs • Migrant • Mama and Daughter • Sy... [Read More]

  • Not Without Laughter (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • ASIN: 0486454487
    • ISBN: 9780486454481
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    A shining star of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes is one of modern literature's most revered African-American authors. Although best known for his poetry, Hughes produced in Not Without Laughter a powerful and pioneering classic novel.This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-Ame... [Read More]

  • The 100 Best African American Poems

    • UPC: 760789225604
    • ASIN: 1402221118
    • ISBN: 9781402221118
    • Brand: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks MediaFusion

    Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nikki Giovanni Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a larger, less round num... [Read More]

  • The Early Simple Stories (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 7)

    • ASIN: 0826213707
    • ISBN: 0826213707
    • Brand: Brand: University of Missouri
    • Manufacturer: University of Missouri

    Jesse B. Semple first sprang to life in Langston Hughes's weekly Chicago Defender column in 1943. Almost immediately, the "Simple stories," as they were routinely called, had a large and ever-increasing audience. Simple soon became Harlem's Everyman—an ordinary black workingman, representative of the masses of black folks in the 1940s.Simple had ... [Read More]

  • The Ways of White Folks: Stories (Vintage Classics)

    • ASIN: 0679728171
    • ISBN: 9780679728177
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.

  • The Block

    • ASIN: 067086501X
    • ISBN: 067086501X
    • Brand: Brand: Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Thirteen poems about the New York City neighborhood of Harlem are teamed with the collage painting, The Block, a celebration of the bustle of Harlem, from the corner grocery store to the local Baptist church.

  • Langston Hughes (Voice of the Poet)

    • ASIN: 0553714910
    • ISBN: 0553714910
    • Brand: Brand: Random House Audio
    • Manufacturer: Random House Audio

    THE VOICE OF THE POETA remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with t... [Read More]

  • The Sweet and Sour Animal Book (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature)

    • ASIN: 0195120302
    • ISBN: 9780195120301
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    In 26 never-before-published short and wonderfully clever poems, Langston Hughes takes children through both the alphabet and the animal world. From Ape to Zebra--with bees, camels, fish, and even a unicorn in between--he paints a picture of each animal with just a few simple, but telling, words.

  • Works for Children and Young Adults: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Writing (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 11)

    • ASIN: 0826214983
    • ISBN: 0826214983
    • Brand: Brand: University of Missouri
    • Manufacturer: University of Missouri

    Throughout his long career as a poet, fiction writer, and chronicler of the situation of blacks throughout the world, Langston Hughes also wrote books for children. Whether fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, these works are true literature into which he put much research, thought, creative energy, and love. His young readers then and now can sense tha... [Read More]

  • The Complete Poetry

    • ASIN: 0812997875
    • ISBN: 9780812997873
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry.Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer’s remarka... [Read More]

  • My People (Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator Winner Title(s))

    • ASIN: 1416935401
    • ISBN: 1416935401
    • Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

    Langston Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribue to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Charles R. Smith Jr. interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the beauty, and the soul of being a black American today.

  • Langston Hughes: American Poet

    • ASIN: 0060798890
    • ISBN: 0060798890
    • Manufacturer: Amistad

    One of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Langston Hughes influenced many writers -- including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. In this moving and richly detailed portrait, she celebrates the life of the man who fell in love with books at a young age and grew up to write about Black people as he saw them: happy, mad, s... [Read More]

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