The Weary Blues
Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening Proem (prologue poem)-I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa-Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their voices were newly being heard in our literature. As the legendary Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 edition, His cabaret songs throb with the true jazz rhythm; his sea-piec…
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- ISBN: 978-0-385-35297-0
- EAN: 9780385352970
- Produktnummer: 19349367
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
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