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Langston Hughes
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 ... [... more]
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Langston Hughes Reader
The Premier Spokesman for a People: No other writer in America has been as "on-the-mark" with the pulse of Black America than Langston Hughes. Sometimes humerous, often touching, but, most often, hard-hitting and reflective, Hughes wrote from [... more]
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Nikki Giovanni
Poet, activist, mother, and professor, Nikki Giovanni is a three-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry. The author of ... [... more]
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Carl Van Vechten
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 ... [... more]
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Helen Ferris
Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics-pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense-ensure that there's a poem ... [... more]
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Andrew Fusek Peters
Illustrated by Polly Dunbar, Compiled by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes... Here's ... [... more]
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) ranks as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century. A landmark figure in the Harlem Renaissance, his work profoundly captures and celebrates the trials and triumphs of his exquisitly drawn characters. ... [... more]
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David Colbert
Thomas Jefferson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence ... Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ... Langston Hughes visits the Scottsboro Boys on death row ... Andy Warhol paints ... [... more]
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Simple but deep poetry... inspiring!: This book of poetry was so fun and fast-paced that I read it all in one sitting. Some of the poems are so incredibly simple that they speak right to you and you say "hmm... that's so true", but the concept [... more]
CDN$24.53
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Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes
His Soul Was Deep Like a River: This is a terrific addition to the Voice of the Poet series. Langston Hughes doesn't just read his poems; he talks about their genesis and about his life. For all the ugliness of Jim Crow, he never sounds bitter, but he [... more]
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
worthy successot to Whitman, Sandburg, & Paul Dunbar: Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. He spent a year at Columbia University, traveled to Mexico and Europe, moved to Harlem in 1924, finished college at Lincoln University in [... more]
CDN$26.95
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
worthy successot to Whitman, Sandburg, & Paul Dunbar: Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. He spent a year at Columbia University, traveled to Mexico and Europe, moved to Harlem in 1924, finished college at Lincoln University in [... more]
CDN$52.00
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