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Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia University. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," which appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine Opportunity, the winning poem being "The Weary Blues," which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926. As a result of his poetry, Mr. Hughes received a scholarship at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where... Read More
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $19.95
"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 Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $19.95
"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 Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is... Read more >
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
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Vintage Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $9.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $9.95
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... Read more >
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The Ways of White Folks
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $13.95
In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $13.95
In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s. Read more >
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Hughes: Poems
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $13.50
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $13.50
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is... Read more >
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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $16.99
"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."
The Dream Keeper, the great African-American writer Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children, includes some of his best loved works. It is being reissued in a handsome hardcover edition in celebration... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $16.99
"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."
The Dream Keeper, the great African-American writer Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children, includes some of his best loved works. It is being reissued in a handsome hardcover edition in celebration... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
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The Panther & the Lash
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $12.95
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice is more pointed than ever... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $12.95
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice is more pointed than ever... Read more >
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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: December 3, 1996
Price: $8.99
Illus. 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. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: December 3, 1996
Price: $8.99
Illus. 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. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
hardcover library binding.
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The Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 26, 2002
Price: $19.95
THE VOICE OF THE POET
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 26, 2002
Price: $19.95
THE VOICE OF THE POET
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book... Read more >
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Remember Me to Harlem
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Tambourines to Glory
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $9.95
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox.
Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $9.95
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox.
Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 96 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $19.99
Illus. 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. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 96 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $19.99
Illus. 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. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Remember Me to Harlem
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendship--and for... Read more >
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendship--and for... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Tambourines to Glory
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2010
Price: $9.95
Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes’s breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different reasons.
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up... Read more >
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2010
Price: $9.95
Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes’s breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different reasons.
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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