The Weary Blues
This celebratory edition of the classic poetry collection reminds us of Hughes's stunning achievement, speaking directly, intimately, and powerfully of Black experiences at a time when Black voices were newly being heard in American literature. • With an introduction by poet Kevin Young.
Beginning with the opening “Proem” (prologue poem) Huges writes, “I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa."
As the legendary Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 edition, “His cabaret songs throb with the true jazz rhythm; his sea-pieces ache with a calm, melancholy lyricism; he cries bitterly from the heart of his race...Always, however, his stanzas are subjective, personal,” and, he concludes, they are…
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February 10, 2015
Langston Hughes (1902–1967), a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most influential and esteemed writers of the twentieth century, was born in Joplin, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Kansas before moving to Harlem. His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published in 1926; its success helped him to win a scholarship to Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, from which he received his B.A. in 1929 and an honorary Litt.D. in 1943. Among his other awards and honors were a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rosenwald Fellowship, and a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hughes published more than thirty-five books, including works of poetry, short stories, novels, an autobiography, musicals, essays, and plays.
Angela Flournoy (introduction)…
The Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folks
Langston Hughes Introduction by Joshua Bennett
Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes; Introduction by Angela Flournoy
Mule Bone
Zora Neale Hurston
That Is My Dream!
Langston Hughes; illustrated by Daniel Miyares
Father and Son
Langston Hughes
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes; Edited by Arnold Rampersad, David Roessel, and Christa Fratantoro
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
The Big Sea
Langston Hughes and Arnold Rampersad
I Wonder as I Wander
Langston Hughes and Arnold Rampersad
Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes
Tambourines to Glory
Langston Hughes
Vintage Hughes
Langston Hughes
Remember Me to Harlem
edited by Emily Bernard
Hughes: Poems
Langston Hughes; Edited by David Roessel
Unravel
Tolu Oloruntoba
antibody
Rebecca Salazar
Forecast: Pretty Bleak
Chris Bailey
total
Aisha Sasha John
Paper Boat
Margaret Atwood
Signal Infinities
Melanie Siebert
woke up no light
Leila Mottley
The Seventh Town of Ghosts
Faith Arkorful
shima
sho yamagushiku
Empires of the Everyday
Anna Lee-Popham
The Knot of My Tongue
Zehra Naqvi
A Year of Last Things
Michael Ondaatje
From the Lost and Found Department
Joy Kogawa
After That
Lorna Crozier