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The Weary Blues: Thrift Editions

Autor Langston Hughes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 feb 2022
The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication, it remains a critically acclaimed literary work and still evokes a fresh, contemporary feeling and offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From the title poem "The Weary Blues," echoing the sounds of the blues, to "Dream Variation," ringing with joyfulness, to the "Epilogue" that mimics Walt Whitman in its opening line, "I, too, sing America," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic and relevant today.
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ISBN-13: 9780486849010
ISBN-10: 0486849015
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 124 x 201 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.07 kg
Editura: Dover Publications Inc.
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Notă biografică

Best known for his vivid and astute portrayals of Black life across the written page, Langston Hughes—born James Mercer Langston Hughes—(1901 - 1967) was a poet, playwright, writer and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance who founded jazz poetry. Raised mostly by his grandmother, Hughes was instilled with a lasting sense of racial pride and a love of books from a young age and though not supported by his father in his pursuit of writing, Hughes would attend Columbia with his father’s aid in 1921, before leaving the very next year due to racial prejudice and a desire to focus on his poetry. Hughes first introduced his voice to the world in a 1921 issue of The Crisis where he published, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” The poem would come to be known as his signature piece and five years later was included in his debut poetry collection, The Weary Blues. Establishing himself as a key player of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes would be one of a small group of Black intellectuals and artists of the movement who called themselves the Niggerati. Going on to write their manifesto, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Hughes’ use of the literary medium differed heavily from the artistic aspirations of the Black middle class in that he desired to focus on highlighting the lives of working-class Black people and addressing divisions and prejudices that existed within the Black community itself. In a career spanning over four decades, Hughes would publish an award-winning novel (Not Without Laughter), multiple plays—some in collaboration with Zora Neale Hurston—(Mule Bone and Black Nativity), children’s literature (Popo and Fifina) and even an autobiography (The Big Sea); among others in a large volume of work. In his personal life, Hughes maintained lifetime friendships with members of the movement and also is believed to have had private romantic and sexual relationships with men. While Hughes’ emphasis on racial pride had begun to fall out of favor with new and coming movements of the younger generation, his contributions to the African-American literary canon and American literature at all could not be denied and as such at the time of his death was—and continues to be—one of the most talented and respected voices of a generation.

Cuprins

Introducing Langston Hughes to the Reader
Proem
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues
Jazzonia
Negro Dancers
The Cat and the Saxophone
Young Singer
Cabaret
To Midnight Nan at Leroy’s
To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead
Harlem Night Club
Nude Young Dancer
Young Prostitute
To a Black Dancer
Song for a Banjo Dance
Blues Fantasy
Lenox Avenue: Midnight
Dream Variations
Dream Variation
Winter Moon
Poème d’Automne
Fantasy in Purple
March Moon
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Cross
The Jester
The South
As I Grew Older
Aunt Sue’s Stories
Poem
Black Pierrot
A Black Pierrot
Harlem Night Song
Songs to the Dark Virgin
Ardella
Poem—To the Black Beloved
When Sue Wears Red
Pierrot
Water-Front Streets
Water-Front Streets
A Farewell
Long Trip
Port Town
Sea Calm
Caribbean Sunset
Young Sailor
Seascape
Natcha
Sea Charm
Death of an Old Seaman
Shadows in the Sun
Beggar Boy
Troubled Woman
Suicide’s Note
Sick Room
Soledad
To the Dark Mercedes
Mexican Market Woman
After Many Springs
Young Bride
The Dream Keeper
Poem (To F.S.)
Our Land
Our Land
Lament for Dark Peoples
Afraid
Poem—For the Portrait of an African Boy
Summer Night
Disillusion
Danse Africaine
The White Ones
Mother to Son
Poem
Epilogue