Vintage Hughes

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia InquirerArguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, Langston Hughes was a great poet and a shrewd and lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.Vintage Hughes includes the poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers, ” “I, Too, ” “The Weary Blues, ” “America, ” “Let America Be America Again, ” “Dream Variations, ” “Young Sailor, ” “Afro-American Fragment, ” “Scottsboro, ” “The Negro Mother, ” “Good Morning Revolution, ” “I Dream a World, ” “The Heart of Harlem, ” “Freedom Train, ” “Song for Billie Holliday, ” “Nightmare Boogie, ” “Africa, ” “Black Panther, ” “Birmingham Sunday, ” and “UnAmerican Investigators”; and three stories from the collection The Ways of White Folks: “Cora Unashamed, ” “Home, ” and “The Blues I’m Playing.” Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.