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Hughes Langston
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
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"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.
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
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With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror-- and the marrow of the bone of life." The poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967 and represent work from his entire career, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.
The Ways of White Folks: Stories
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In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.
The Big Sea: An Autobiography (American Century)
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Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."
Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best--simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain."
'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' Langston Hughes
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A short essay explaining this famous poem by Langston Hughes.
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
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Sterling proudly announces an exciting and vibrant addition to Poetry for Young People: The first African-American themed book in the series, featuring the poems of the extraordinary Langston Hughes. Edited by the two leading experts on Hughes’s work, and illustrated by the brilliant Benny Andrews, this very special volume is one to treasure forever.
A much-requested book that was years in the making…and well worth the wait. One of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance—the flowering of black culture that took place in the 1920s and 30s—Langston Hughes captured the soul of his people, and gave voice to their concerns about race and social justice. His magnificent and powerful words still resonate today: that’s why it’s so important for young people to have access to his poems. Now they do, in a splendid volume edited and illustrated by a top-caliber team who are simply the best in their fields.
The introduction, biography, and annotations come from Arnold Rampersad, a Professor and Dean at Stanford University, who has written The Life of Langston Hughes, and David Roessel, co-editor with Professor Rampersad of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes and editor of the Langston Hughes collection in Knopf’s Everyman series. Benny Andrews—a painter, printmaker, and arts advocate whose work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian, among others—has created gallery-quality illustrations that pulse with energy and add rich dimension to the poems.
Among the anthologized poems are Hughes’s best-known and most loved works: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “Aunt Sue’s Stories”; “Danse Africaine”; “Mother to Son”; “My People”; “Words Like Freedom”; “Harlem”; and “I, Too”—his sharp, pointed response to Walt Whitman’s earlier “I Hear America Singing.”
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes is a publishing event for all to celebrate.
A Selection of the Scholastic Book Club.
Hughes Langston News
Smiley to pay tribute to Langston Hughes - Frost Illustrated
Frost Illustrated, IN - May 26, 2009
Smiley to pay tribute to Langston HughesFORT WAYNE-Poet E. Scott Smiley is scheduled to pay tribute to Langston Hughes during a reading entitled "My Soul Has Grown Deep Like the Rivers" at 8 pm, May 27 at Soups, Salads & Spirits, 1915 S. Calhoun St. Smiley also is scheduled to give a sneak
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First Lady Michelle Obama lauds efforts of NOLA 180 to reform ... - Louisiana Weekly
Louisiana Weekly, LA - May 26, 2009
First Lady Michelle Obama lauds efforts of NOLA 180 to reform Langston Hughes Academy (LHA) is the flagship school for NOLA 180. In the fall of 2009, LHA will move into the first new public school building built in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. LHA is a tuition-free public school open to all students
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DYNAMIC DUO - View Magazine
View Magazine, Canada - May 21, 3595
DYNAMIC DUOThe second production offered is Langston Hughes vs. Joe mccarthy; It's about the day that the African– American poet Langston Hughes, one of the most important literary figures of the 1940s and '50s, was hauled before Joe mccarthy's senate committee
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Where has John Sayles been? Writing a novel - Seattle Times
Seattle Times, United States - May 21, 7616
Where has John Sayles been? Writing a novelHis 2007 film "Honeydripper" appeared at the Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival here recently, but he doesn't currently have a new movie on the horizon. Why? He's been writing a novel, and he can't find a publisher.
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Poetry Spoken Out Loud Gaining Popularity in US
Voice of America - May 14, 2009
Will Farley from Virginia recited a poem by one of his favorite poets, Langston Hughes, a well known African-American poet in the last century. When he was a university student in New York, Hughes wrote, "Theme for English B." Will's interpretation of
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