Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) [Hardcover]

Langston Hughes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 23, 1999 | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

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 language.

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125th Street
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Advice
Aesthete In Harlem
Afro-american Fragment
Always The Same
American Heartbreak
Angels Wings
Argument
Aunt Sue's Stories
Baby
Ballad Of The Landlord
Bar
Be-bop Boys
Beale Street Love
Birmingham Sunday
Black Seed
Blues At Dawn
Blues Fantasy
Boogie: 1 A.m.
Bound No'th Blues
Brothers
Buddy
Cafe: 3 A.m.
Casualty
Children's Rhymes (1)
Chord
College Formal: Renaissance Casino
Comment On Curb
Corner Meeting
Croon
Cross
Cubes
Dancer
Danse Africaine
Daybreak In Alabama
Dead In There
Deferred
Dime
Dive
Dream Boogie
Dream Boogie: Variation
Dream Variations [or, Variation]
Drunkard
Easy Boogie
Elevator Boy
Envoy To Africa
Evenin' Air Blues
Evening Song
Fact
Feet O' Jesus
Final Call
Fire
Flatted Fifths
Florida Road Workers
Freedom Train
Gauge
Genius Child
Go Slow
Good Morning
Graduation
Green Memory
Harlem: 1
Harlem: 2
Heart
High To Low
Homesick Blues
Hope
A House In Taos
Hurt
I, Too
In Explanation Of Our Times
Interne At Provident
Island (1)
Jam Session
Jazz Band In A Parisian Cabaret
Jazzonia
Jim Crow Car
Joe Louis
Johannesburg Mines
Juke Box Love Song
Junior Addict
Ku Klux
Lady's Boogie
Lament For Dark Peoples
Lament Over Love
Lenox Avenue: Midnight
Let America Be America Again
Letter
Letter To The Academy
Life Is Fine
Likewise
Live And Let Live
Long View: Negro
Low To High
Ma Man
Madam And Her Might-have-been
Madam And The Fortune Teller
Madam And The Phone Bill
Madam's Calling Cards
Madam's Past History
Madrid - 1937
Magnolia Flowers
Mama And Daughter
Me And The Mule
Mellow
Memo To Non-white Peoples
Merry-go-round
Midnight Dancer: To A Balck Dancer In The Little Savoy
Midwinter Blues
Migration
Moan
Moonlight In Valencia: Civil War
Mother To Son
Motto
Movies
My People
Mystery
Necessity
Negro
Negro Dancers
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
Neighbor
Neon Signs
New Yorkers
Night Funeral In Harlem
Nightmare Boogie
Not A Movie
Note On Commercial Theatre
Numbers
October 16: The Raid
Old Walt
Parade
Passing
Personal
Poet To Patron
Prayer Meeting
Preference
Projection
Question (2)
Railroad Avenue
Red Cross
Red Silk Stockings
Relief
Request
Reverie On The Harlem River
Ruby Brown
Same In Blues
Saturday Night
Seven Moments Of Love: 1. Twilight Reverie
Seven Moments Of Love: 2. Supper Time
Seven Moments Of Love: 3. Bed Time
Seven Moments Of Love: 4. Daybreak
Seven Moments Of Love: 5. Sunday
Seven Moments Of Love: 6. Pay Day
Seven Moments Of Love: 7. Letter
Shame On You
Sister
Situation
Sliver
Sliver Of Sermon
So Long
Soledad: A Cuban Portrait
Song For A Banjo Dance
Spirituals
Still Here
Street Song
Subway Rush Hour
Summer Night
Sunday By The Combination
Sunset In Dixie
Sweet Words On Race
Tag
Tell Me
Testimonial
Theme For English B
Third Degree
Three Songs About Lynching: Silhouette
To Certain Negro Leaders
To Midnight Nan At Leroy's
Tomorrow
Trumpet Player
Ultimatum
Up-beat
Visitors To The Black Belt
Warning
Warning: Augmented
The Weary Blues
What? So Soon!
When Sue Wears Red
Wine-o
Wonder
Words Like Freedom
World War Ii
Young Gal's Blues
Youth
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

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 Weary Blues," which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. As a result of his poetry, Mr. Hughes received a scholarship at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he won his B.A. in 1929. In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Litt.D. by his alma mater; he has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1935), a Rosenwald Fellowship (1940), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant (1947). From 1926 until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. He wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays, humor, and plays. A cross section of his work was published in 1958 as The Langston Hughes Reader.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library (March 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375405518
• ISBN-13: 978-0375405518
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 0.8 x 6.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A P0CKET FULL OF INSPIRATION, March 1, 2001

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Bonita L. Davis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

Everyman's Library of Pocket Poets presents an accessible collection of Langston Hughes' poems right before our finger tips. Culled from Hughes', "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes", you are able to read and reflect upon some of the best of Hughes' work during a fifty year period.

Whether he's writing in the jazz or blues idiom, your soul will be touched by the magnificence of one of America's great poets. Some of his memorable poems are at your service. Deal with "The Weary Blues". Laugh at his critique in "To Certain Negro Leaders" and meditate on "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". Hughes will reach you intellectually and emotionally with his work.

I enjoyed this volume because of the poet, the format of the book (it is easy to carry around) and the broad range of poems it contains. It is indeed a pocket full of inspiration that you need to have and share with others.