![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature. This book is a glorious revelation." - Boston Globe is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music. "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar. Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "Montage of a Dream Deferred", The Collected Poems includes Hughes's lesser-known verse for children topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed. The collection spans five decades, and is comprised of 868 poems (nearly 300 of which never before appeared in book form) with annotations by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. 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. 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. ![]()
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