Poems

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Where to find it

Davis Library (8th floor)

Call Number
PS3515.U274 A6 1999
Status
Available

Stone Center Library

Call Number
PS3515.U274 A6 1999
Status
Available

Summary

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 a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common language.

Contents

  • Poems of Five Decades
  • The Negro Speaks of Rivers Aunt Sue's Stories
  • Negro Danse Africaine Song for a Banjo Dance
  • Mother to Son
  • When Sue Wears Red Jazzonia
  • Prayer Meeting My People Migration
  • Lament for Dark Peoples
  • Youth Dream Variations
  • Johannesburg Mines Negro Dancers
  • I, Too The Weary Blues To Midnight
  • Nan at Leroy's Soledad Cross
  • Summer Night Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret
  • Midwinter Blues Ma Man Lament over Love Homesick Blues
  • Ruby Brown Elevator Boy Bound No'th Blues Feet o'
  • Jesus Beale Street
  • Love A House in Taos Railroad Avenue
  • Saturday Night
  • Midnight Dancer Blues Fantasy
  • Lenox Avenue: Midnight Spirituals Fire
  • Moan Angels Wings
  • Baby Red Silk Stockings
  • Young Gal's Blues Magnolia Flowers
  • Hurt Aesthete in Harlem Afro-American Fragment
  • Black Seed To Certain Negro Leaders
  • October 16: The Raid Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria
  • Florida Road Workers Always the Same
  • Letter to the Academy Personal Cubes Madrid
  • Let America Be America Again
  • Genius Child
  • Poet to Patron Visitors to the Black Belt
  • Note on Commercial Theatre
  • Seven Moments of Love Daybreak in Alabama Evenin'
  • Air Blues Sunset in Dixie
  • Me and the Mule Merry-Go-Round Ku Klux Reverie on the Harlem River
  • Words Like Freedom Red Cross Silhouette Still Here
  • Moonlight in Valencia: Civil War
  • Madam's Past History
  • Madam's Calling Cards
  • Madam and Her Might-Have-Been
  • Madam and the Phone Bill
  • Madam and the Fortune Teller
  • Heart Graduation
  • Freedom Train
  • Trumpet Player Life Is Fine
  • Harlem [1] Mama and Daughter
  • Third Degree Interne at Provident
  • American Heartbreak Envoy to Africa Old Walt
  • In Explanation of Our Times
  • Memo to Non-White Peoples
  • Jim Crow Car Go Slow
  • Junior Addict Final Call Long View: Negro Birmingham Sunday Sweet Words on Race
  • Montage of a Dream Deferred 
  • Dream Boogie Parade
  • Children's Rhymes
  • Sister Preference
  • Necessity Question
  • Buddy Juke Box
  • Love Song Ultimatum Warning
  • Croon New Yorkers Wonder
  • Easy Boogie Movies
  • Tell Me Not a Movie
  • Neon Signs Numbers
  • What? So Soon!
  • Motto Dead in There Situation
  • Dancer Advice Green Memory Wine-O
  • Relief Ballad of the Landlord
  • Corner Meeting Projection
  • Flatted Fifths Tomorrow Mellow
  • Live and Let Live Gauge Bar Cafe´: 3 a.m
  • Drunkard Street Song 125th Street Dive Warning: Augmented Up-Beat Jam Session 
  • Be-Bop Boys Tag Theme for English B College Formal: Renaissance Casino Low to High Boogie: 1 a.m
  • High to Low Lady's Boogie 
  • So Long Deferred Request
  • Shame on You World War II Mystery
  • Sliver of Sermon Testimonial
  • Passing Nightmare
  • Boogie Sunday by the Combination
  • Casualty Night Funeral in Harlem Blues at Dawn Dime
  • Argument Neighbor
  • Evening Song
  • Chord Fact Joe Louis
  • Subway Rush Hour
  • Brothers Likewise Sliver Hope Dream Boogie: Variation Harlem [2]
  • Good Morning Same in Blues
  • Comment on Curb Letter Island
  • Index of First Lines

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