In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine Opportunity, the winning poem being "The Weary Blues," which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," which appeared in Crisis in 1921. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia University. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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 and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.Īlongside 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. 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. 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.
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