
0 0 add-to-cart store_type:Shop Shop Paperback 19.8 x 2.4 x 12. With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi. A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is now seen as one of the great chroniclers of black American experience - and one of the great artists of the twentieth century. 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.

It includes all of his best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary Blues', 'Song for Billie Holiday', 'Black Maria', 'Magnolia Flowers', 'Lunch in a Jim Crow Car' and 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'. He wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays, humor, and plays.

This edition is Hughes's own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959. From 1926 until his death in 1967, Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. #html-body For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. 35880 Langston Hughes: Selected Poems 9.99 9.99 GBP InStock /Reading/All Books /Edits/Exhibitions/Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers /Edits/Exhibitions/Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers/Reading List Discover the poetry of one of the most influential and acclaimed American writers of the twentieth century, Langston Hughes, whose poem inspired the title of our Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers exhibition.
