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Let America Be America Again
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780192855046 |
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A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes. Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record of a remarkable man talking. In texts ranging from early interviews in the 1920s, when he was a busboy and scribbling out poems on hotel napkins, to major speeches, such as his keynote address at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966, Hughes's words further amplify the international reputation he established over the course of five decades through more widely-published and well-known poems, stories, novels, and plays. In these interviews, speeches, and conversational essays, the writer referred to by admirers as the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race" and the "Dean of Black Letters" articulated some of his most powerful critiques of fascism, economic and racial oppression, and compromised democracy. It was also through these genres that Hughes spoke of the responsibilities of the Black artist, documented the essential contributions of Black people to literature, music, and theatre, and chronicled the substantial challenges that Black artists face in gaining recognition, fair pay, and professional advancement. And it was through these pieces, too, that Hughes built on his celebrated work in other literary genres to craft an original, tragic-comic persona--a Blues poet in exile, forever yearning for and coming back to a home, a nation, that nevertheless continues to disappoint and harm him. A global traveler, Hughes's words, "Let America be America Again" were, throughout his career, always followed by a caveat: "America never was America to me."
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Author | : James Langston Hughes |
Publsiher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780679426318 |
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Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.
The Weary Blues
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publsiher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2022-01-31 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780486850566 |
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Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.
Freedom s Plow
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105002406721 |
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Don t Call Us Dead
Author | : Danez Smith |
Publsiher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781555979775 |
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The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith—“Hallelujah is an understatement” (Patricia Smith) Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality—the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood—and a diagnosis of HIV positive. “Some of us are killed / in pieces,” Smith writes, “some of us all at once.” Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—“Dear White America”—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.
Hughes Poems
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publsiher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1999-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : UOM:39015046481225 |
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A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes.
I Too Am America
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publsiher | : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-05-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442420081 |
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Winner of the Coretta Scott King illustrator award, I, Too, Am America blends the poetic wisdom of Langston Hughes with visionary illustrations from Bryan Collier in this inspirational picture book that carries the promise of equality. I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Langston Hughes was a courageous voice of his time, and his authentic call for equality still rings true today. Beautiful paintings from Barack Obama illustrator Bryan Collier accompany and reinvent the celebrated lines of the poem "I, Too," creating a breathtaking reminder to all Americans that we are united despite our differences. This picture book of Langston Hughes’s celebrated poem, "I, Too, Am America," is also a Common Core Text Exemplar for Poetry.
Vintage Hughes
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058068837 |
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Presents selected works from "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," and "The Ways of White Folks."