Selected Poems
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Published:1st Oct '20
Should be back in stock very soon
Classics edition with new introduction by Kayo Chingonyi of the essential poems of 'the poet laureate of black America' New Yorker.
Classics edition with new introduction by Kayo Chingonyi of the essential poems of 'the poet laureate of black America' - New Yorker.With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi. For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes's own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959. It includes all of his best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary Blues', 'Song for Billie Holiday', 'Black Maria', 'Magnolia Flowers', 'Lunch in a Jim Crow Car' and 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'. A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is now seen as one of the great chroniclers of black American experience - and one of the great artists of the twentieth century.
Langston Hughes, for me, was always the poet of the people. -- Claudia Rankine
The poet laureate of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance -- Lemn Sissay * Guardian *
Every time I read Langston Hughes I am amazed ... Hughes, in his sermons, blues and prayers, has working for him the power and the beat of Negro speech and Negro music. -- James Baldwin
ISBN: 9781788164511
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 24mm
Weight: 252g
320 pages
Main - Classic Edition