Langston Hughes

Vintage Hughes Langston 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 Inquirer

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 Hughesincludes 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.?