Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel [Hardcover]

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.POEMS OF FIVE DECADES
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Aunt Sue’s Stories
Negro
Danse Africaine
Song for a Banjo Dance
Mother to Son
When Sue Wears Red
Jazzonia
Prayer Meeting
My People
Migration
Lament for Dark Peoples
Youth
Dream Variations
Johannesburg Mines
Negro Dancers
I, Too
The Weary Blues
To Midnight Nan at Leroy’s
Soledad
Cross
Summer Night
Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret
Midwinter Blues
Ma Man
Lament over Love
Homesick Blues
Ruby Brown
Elevator Boy
Bound No’th Blues
Feet o’ Jesus
Beale Street Love
A House in Taos
Railroad Avenue
Saturday Night
Midnight Dancer
Blues Fantasy
Lenox Avenue: Midnight
Spirituals
Fire
Moan
Angels Wings
Baby
Red Silk Stockings
Young Gal’s Blues
Magnolia Flowers
Hurt
Aesthete in Harlem
Afro-American Fragment
Black Seed
To Certain Negro Leaders
October 16: The Raid
Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria
Florida Road Workers
Always the Same
Letter to the Academy
Personal
Cubes
Madrid
Let America Be America Again
Genius Child
Poet to Patron
Visitors to the Black Belt
Note on Commercial Theatre
Seven Moments of Love
Daybreak in Alabama
Evenin’ Air Blues
Sunset in Dixie
Me and the Mule
Merry-Go-Round
Ku Klux
Reverie on the Harlem River
Words Like Freedom
Red Cross
Silhouette
Still Here
Moonlight in Valencia: Civil War
Madam’s Past History
Madam’s Calling Cards
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