Selected Poems

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi.

For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes's own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959. It includes all of his best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary Blues', 'Song for Billie Holiday', 'Black Maria', 'Magnolia Flowers', 'Lunch in a Jim Crow Car' and 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'.

A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is now seen as one of the great chroniclers of black American experience - and one of the great artists of the twentieth century.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781788164511
Published: October 2020

Number of pages: 320
Width: 128 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 24 mm

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd