Selected Poems Of Langston Hughes

A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse

By: Langston Hughes

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Paperback | 12 September 1990 | Edition Number 1

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Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America-the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career.

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 with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror-and the marrow of the bone of life."

The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.

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Afro-American Fragments
Afro-American Fragment	p. 3
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	p. 4
Sun Song	p. 5
Aunt Sue's Stories	p. 6
Danse Africaine	p. 7
Negro	p. 8
American Heartbreak	p. 9
October 16	p. 10
As I Grew Older	p. 11
My People	p. 13
Dream Variations	p. 14
Feet of Jesus
Feet o' Jesus	p. 17
Prayer	p. 18
Shout	p. 19
Fire	p. 20
Sunday Morning Prophecy	p. 21
Sinner	p. 23
Litany	p. 24
Angels Wings	p. 25
Judgment Day	p. 26
Prayer Meeting	p. 27
Spirituals	p. 28
Tambourines	p. 29
Shadow of the Blues
The Weary Blues	p. 33
Hope	p. 35
Late Last Night	p. 36
Bad Morning	p. 37
Sylvester's Dying Bed	p. 38
Wake	p. 39
Could Be	p. 40
Bad Luck Card	p. 41
Reverie on the Harlem River	p. 42
Morning After	p. 43
Early Evening Quarrel	p. 44
Evil	p. 45
As Befits a Man	p. 46
Sea and Land
Havana Dreams	p. 49
Catch	p. 50
Water-Front Streets	p. 51
Long Trip	p. 52
Seascape	p. 53
Moonlight Night: Carmel	p. 54
Heaven	p. 55
In Time of Silver Rain	p. 56
Joy	p. 57
Winter Moon	p. 58
Snail	p. 59
March Moon	p. 60
Harlem Night Song	p. 61
To Artina	p. 62
Fulfilment	p. 63
Gypsy Melodies	p. 64
Mexican Market Woman	p. 65
A Black Pierrot	p. 66
Ardella	p. 67
When Sue Wears Red	p. 68
Love	p. 69
Beale Street	p. 70
Port Town	p. 71
Natcha	p. 72
Young Sailor	p. 73
Sea Calm	p. 74
Dream Dust	p. 75
No Regrets	p. 76
Troubled Woman	p. 77
Island	p. 78
Distance Nowhere
Border Line	p. 81
Garden	p. 82
Genius Child	p. 83
Strange Hurt	p. 84
Suicide's Note	p. 85
End	p. 86
Drum	p. 87
Personal	p. 88
Juliet	p. 89
Desire	p. 90
Vagabonds	p. 91
One	p. 92
Desert	p. 93
A House in Taos	p. 94
Demand	p. 96
Dream	p. 97
Night: Four Songs	p. 98
Luck	p. 99
Old Walt	p. 100
Kid in the Park	p. 101
Song for Billie Holiday	p. 102
Fantasy in Purple	p. 103
After Hours
Midnight Raffle	p. 107
What?	p. 108
Gone Boy	p. 109
50-50	p. 110
Maybe	p. 111
Lover's Return	p. 112
Miss Blues'es Child	p. 113
Trumpet Player	p. 114
Monroe's Blues	p. 116
Stony Lonesome	p. 117
Black Maria	p. 118
Life is Fine
Life Is Fine	p. 121
Still Here	p. 123
Ballad of the Gypsy	p. 124
Me and the Mule	p. 125
Kid Sleepy	p. 126
Little Lyric	p. 127
Fired	p. 128
Midnight Dancer	p. 129
Blue Monday	p. 130
Ennui	p. 131
Mama and Daughter	p. 132
Delinquent	p. 133
S-sss-ss-sh!	p. 134
Homecoming	p. 135
Final Curve	p. 136
Little Green Tree	p. 137
Crossing	p. 138
Widow Woman	p. 139
Lament over Love
Misery	p. 143
Ballad of the Fortune Teller	p. 144
Cora	p. 146
Down and Out	p. 147
Young Gal's Blues	p. 148
Ballad of the Girl Whose Name Is Mud	p. 149
Hard Daddy	p. 150
Midwinter Blues	p. 151
Little Old Letter	p. 152
Lament over Love	p. 153
Magnolia Flowers
Daybreak in Alabama	p. 157
Cross	p. 158
Magnolia Flowers	p. 159
Mulatto	p. 160
Southern Mammy Sings	p. 162
Ku Klux	p. 163
West Texas	p. 164
Share-Croppers	p. 165
Ruby Brown	p. 166
Roland Hayes Beaten	p. 167
Uncle Tom	p. 168
Porter	p. 169
Blue Bayou	p. 170
Silhouette	p. 171
Song for a Dark Girl	p. 172
The South	p. 173
Bound No'th Blues	p. 174
Name in Uphill Letters
One-Way Ticket	p. 177
Migrant	p. 178
Summer Evening	p. 180
Graduation	p. 182
Interne at Provident	p. 184
Railroad Avenue	p. 186
Mother to Son	p. 187
Stars	p. 188
To Be Somebody	p. 189
Note on Commercial Theatre	p. 190
Puzzled	p. 191
Seashore through Dark Glasses	p. 192
Baby	p. 193
Merry-Go-Round	p. 194
Elevator Boy	p. 195
Who But the Lord?	p. 196
Third Degree	p. 197
Ballad of the Man Who's Gone	p. 198
Madam to You
Madam's Past History	p. 201
Madam and Her Madam	p. 202
Madam's Calling Cards	p. 203
Madam and the Rent Man	p. 204
Madam and the Number Writer	p. 206
Madam and the Phone Bill	p. 208
Madam and the Charity Child	p. 210
Madam and the Fortune Teller	p. 211
Madam and the Wrong Visitor	p. 212
Madam and the Minister	p. 213
Madam and Her Might-Have-Been	p. 215
Madam and the Census Man	p. 217
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Montage of a Dream Deferred	p. 221
Words Like Freedom
I, Too	p. 275
Freedom Train	p. 276
Georgia Dusk	p. 279
Lunch in a Jim Crow Car	p. 280
In Explanation of Our Times	p. 281
Africa	p. 284
Democracy	p. 285
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