• Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics)

    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 ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 067972818X
    • ASIN: 067972818X
    • ISBN: 067972818X
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)

    "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 GlobeSpanning 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... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0679764089
    • ASIN: 0679764089
    • ISBN: 0679764089
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

    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.

    • ASIN: 0375405518
    • ASIN: 0375405518
    • ISBN: 0375405518
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

    Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it was in 1932.

    • ASIN: 0679883479
    • UPC: 884884003308
    • ASIN: 0679883479
    • ISBN: 9780679883470
    • Brand: Knopf Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

  • The Weary Blues

    Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening “Proem” (prologue poem)—“I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa”—Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their voices were newly being heard in our literature. As the legendary Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 editio... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385352972
    • ASIN: 0385352972
    • ISBN: 0385352972
    • Brand: Knopf Publishing Group
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

    WINNER OF THE 2007 CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR AWARD! A fresh design and appealing new cover enliven this award-winning collection in the acclaimed Poetry for Young People series. Showcasing the extraordinary Langston Hughes, it's edited by two leading poetry experts and features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews that adds rich dimension to the words. Hughes's magnificent, powerful words still resonate today, and the anthologized poems in this splendid volume include his best-loved works: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “My People”; “Words Like Freedom”; “Harlem”; a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1454903287
    • ASIN: 1454903287
    • ISBN: 1454903287
    • Brand: Brand: Sterling Children's Books
    • Manufacturer: Sterling Children's Books

  • Vintage Hughes

    Arguably 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,” ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1400034027
    • ASIN: 1400034027
    • ISBN: 1400034027
    • Brand: Hughes, Langston
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Best of Simple: Stories (American Century)

    Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition.Simple might be considered an Everyman for black Americans. Hughes himself wrote: "...these tales are about a great many people--although they are stori... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B015MP6J98
    • ASIN: B015MP6J98
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

  • Essential Langston Hughes CD (Caedmon Essentials)

    A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own commentary and reflections, on CD for the first time!Collection includes: One Way Ticket • The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Puzzled • Trumpet Player • Ballad of the Gypsy • Kid Sleepy • Southern Mammy Songs • Migrant • Mama and Daughter • Sylvester's Dying Bed • Intern at Provident Hospital • Merry-Go-Round • Ku Klux Klan • The South • Mulatto • Out of Work • The Explanation of Our Times • Dinner Guest: Me • Cultural Exchange • Along with commentary and reflections f... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0061336947
    • ASIN: 0061336947
    • ISBN: 0061336947
    • Manufacturer: Caedmon

  • Not Without Laughter (Dover Thrift Editions)

    A shining star of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes is one of modern literature's most revered African-American authors. Although best known for his poetry, Hughes produced in Not Without Laughter a powerful and pioneering classic novel.This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager;... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0486454487
    • ASIN: 0486454487
    • ISBN: 9780486454481
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • The 100 Best African American Poems

    Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nikki Giovanni Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a larger, less round number. The result is this startlingly vibrant collection that spans from historic to modern, from structured to freeform, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African American verse. These magnetic poems are an exciting mix of most-loved... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1402221118
    • UPC: 760789225604
    • ASIN: 1402221118
    • ISBN: 9781402221118
    • Brand: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks MediaFusion

  • The Early Simple Stories (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 7)

    Jesse B. Semple first sprang to life in Langston Hughes's weekly Chicago Defender column in 1943. Almost immediately, the "Simple stories," as they were routinely called, had a large and ever-increasing audience. Simple soon became Harlem's Everyman—an ordinary black workingman, representative of the masses of black folks in the 1940s.Simple had migrated to Harlem, like many other blacks, seeking to escape the racism of the South, and he celebrated his new freedoms despite the economic struggles he still confronted. Simple's bar buddy and foil in the stories is the better-educated, more arti... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0826213707
    • ASIN: 0826213707
    • ISBN: 0826213707
    • Brand: Brand: University of Missouri
    • Manufacturer: University of Missouri

  • The Ways of White Folks: Stories (Vintage Classics)

    In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.

    • ASIN: 0679728171
    • ASIN: 0679728171
    • ISBN: 9780679728177
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Block

    Thirteen poems about the New York City neighborhood of Harlem are teamed with the collage painting, The Block, a celebration of the bustle of Harlem, from the corner grocery store to the local Baptist church.

    • ASIN: 067086501X
    • ASIN: 067086501X
    • ISBN: 067086501X
    • Brand: Brand: Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Langston Hughes (Voice of the Poet)

    THE VOICE OF THE POETA remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliography, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review. "Hearing poetry spoken by the poet is always a unique illumination. This series opens our ears to some of the most pa... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0553714910
    • ASIN: 0553714910
    • ISBN: 0553714910
    • Brand: Brand: Random House Audio
    • Manufacturer: Random House Audio

  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

    A comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Huges contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, is arranged chronologically, and features commentary by Hughes's biographer. Reprint. 15,000 first

    • UPC: 379545
    • Rating: 4.714

  • Selected Poems of Langston Hughes : A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse

    A collection of the author's favorite poetry from published books, private publications, and unpublished

    • UPC: 380610
    • Rating: 4.333

  • Hughes: Poems

    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,

    • UPC: 25675619
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

    Sixty-six poems selected by the author include lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the Black

    • UPC: 378123
    • Rating: 4.8

  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

    A collection of sixty-six poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black

    • UPC: 164718298
    • Rating: 4.8

  • The Best of Simple : Stories

    9780374521332

    • UPC: 465538
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Beautiful Night, Beautiful Me: A Langston Hughes Poem

    Beautiful Night, Beautiful Me: A Langston Hughes

    • UPC: 164042262

  • Selected Poems

    Langston Hughes's poetry launched a revolution among black writers in America. The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire

    • UPC: 555157753
    • Rating: 4.333

  • The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Langston Hughes, Including His Education, Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as Let America Be America Aga

    The Essential Writer's Guide

    • UPC: 429066032

  • The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Langston Hughes, Including His Personal Life, Awards Received, an Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as Black Nativity, Jericho-Jim Crow, and More

    The Essential Writer's Guide

    • UPC: 909360345

  • VG+_1961 LP_LANGSTON HUGHES_THE BEST OF SIMPLE_Read By MELVIN STEWART_FOLKWAYS

    • UPC: 174209455952
    • Category: Records
    • Price: 9 USD

  • 5 Poems by Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes Best Poem Dreams

    "Mother to Son" Langston Hughes poem GREAT Viola Davis voice--then POET HIMSELF RECITES!