Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel

by David Roessel and Langston Hughes

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375405518
• ISBN13: 9780375405518
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A P0CKET FULL OF INSPIRATION

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.