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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press

ISBN-100826213413

ISBN-139780826213419

eBay Product ID (ePID)1879483

Product Key Features

Book TitlePoems 1951-1967 (Lh3)

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAmerican / African American, General

Publication Year2001

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry, Literary Collections

AuthorLangston Hughes

Book SeriesThe Collected Works of Langston Hughes Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight23.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN00-066601

Reviews"The joy in Hughes's poems is his enviable ability to re-create the innate rhythms and spark of a people, a neighborhood, a city, a country. . . . This is the author as loquacious, unleashed social commentator who . . . holds up a mirror and shows us the world."- Boston Globe, "The joy in Hughes's poems is his enviable ability to re-create the innate rhythms and spark of a people, a neighborhood, a city, a country. . . . This is the author as loquacious, unleashed social commentator who . . . holds up a mirror and shows us the world."-- Boston Globe, "The joy in Hughes's poems is his enviable ability to re-create the innate rhythms and spark of a people, a neighborhood, a city, a country....This is the author as loquacious, unleashed social commentator who...holds up a mirror and shows us the world."-- Boston Globe

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromCollege Freshman

Series Volume Number3

Dewey Decimal818/.5209

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisVolume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) brilliantly fused the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of Harlem life as both a triumph of hope and a deepening crisis ("What happens to a dream deferred?"). In the tumultuous following years, he refused to relinquish the mantle of the poet, as may be seen in his inspired last two books of verse, Ask Your Mama (1961) and The Panther and the Lash (1967). The former demonstrates Hughes's continuing alertness to the significance of black music as a guide to American reality; here, avant-garde jazz rhythms and allusions fueled an intensity of language that predicted the cultural upheavals of the sixties and seventies. Hughes's last volume, combining old and new poems, emphasized the struggle for civil rights in the face of reactionary defiance, on the one hand, and the volatility of Black Power, on the other. Vigorous and versatile to the end, Hughes concluded his career as he had begun it: a master poet dedicated to observing and celebrating African American culture in its full complexity., Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) brilliantly fused the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of Harlem life as both a triumph of hope and a deepening crisis ("What happens to a dream deferred?"). In the tumultuous following years, he refused to relinquish the mantle of the poet, as may be seen in his inspired last two books of verse, Ask Your Mama (1961) and The Panther and the Lash (1967). The former demonstrates Hughes's continuing alertness to the significance of black music as a guide to American reality; here, avant-garde jazz rhythms and allusions fueled an intensity of language that predicted the cultural upheavals of the sixties and seventies. Hughes's last volume, combining old and new poems, emphasized the struggle for civil rights in the face of reactionary defiance, on the one hand, and the volatility of Black Power, on the other. Vigorous and versatile to the end, Hughes concluded his career as he had begun it: a master poet dedicated to observing and celebrating African American culture in its full complexity. Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberPS3515.U274 2001