Poetry
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4.7 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Langston Hughes was a leading poet in the Harlem Renaissance and a pioneer in the form of jazz poetry. While working as a hotel busboy in Washington, D.C. in the early 1920s, he was “discovered” by fellow poet Vachel Lindsay, who helped publicize his work. In 1926 he published his first poetry collection, The Weary Blues, which opens with one of his best-known poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Themes he explores in his poetry include the lives of the Black working class, jazz and blues music, and race consciousness.
This Standard Ebooks edition compiles all of the publicly-accessible poems by Langston Hughes known to be in the U.S. public domain, which is limited to about the first decade of his work.
Customer Reviews
A wide range
Perhaps because these poems are in the public domain, they don’t represent Hughes’ best work. They range from formal rhymed poems to free verse and jazz poems. A good introduction to his work. Some of the poems are quite good, but others, not so much.