The collected poems of Langston Hughes

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Label

The collected poems of Langston Hughes

Statement of responsibility

Arnold Rampersad, editor ; David Roessel, associate editor

Creator

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Contributor

• Rampersad, Arnold
• Roessel, David E., (David Ernest), 1954-

Subject

• African Americans
• African Americans -- Poetry
• African Americans | Poetry
• American poetry -- 20th century
• American poetry -- African American authors
• Poetry

Genre

• American poetry
• Poetry

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Member of

• Vintage classics
• Poems., Selections

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

811/.52

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3515.U274

LC item number

A17 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

811.52 H893co

Series statement

Vintage classics