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The collected poems of Langston Hughes / Arnold Rampersad, editor, David Roessel, associate editor.

By: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967Contributor(s): Rampersad, Arnold | Roessel, DavidMaterial type: TextTextReference number:ocm30110330Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994. Edition: 1st edDescription: 708 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0679426310 :Uniform titles: Poems Subject(s): Afro-Americans -- PoetryDDC classification: 811/.52 LOC classification: PS3515.U274 | A17 1994Summary: 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 editors, Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, have aimed to recover all of the poems that Hughes published in his lifetime - in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals, and in his books of verse. They present the poems in the general order in which Hughes wrote them, and also provide illuminating notes and a chronology of the poet's life. Arnold Rampersad, the author of the esteemed two-volume biography of Langston Hughes, has written a perceptive and moving introduction that throws light on Langston Hughes's distinctive voice as a poet and the world in which he lived.
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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 editors, Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, have aimed to recover all of the poems that Hughes published in his lifetime - in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals, and in his books of verse. They present the poems in the general order in which Hughes wrote them, and also provide illuminating notes and a chronology of the poet's life. Arnold Rampersad, the author of the esteemed two-volume biography of Langston Hughes, has written a perceptive and moving introduction that throws light on Langston Hughes's distinctive voice as a poet and the world in which he lived.

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