{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-langston-hughes-9780679764083","title":"The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes","description":"\"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--.  Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation.\"--Boston Globe \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlongside such famous works as \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, \u003cb\u003eThe Collected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as \"Goodbye Christ\" that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679764083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.17h x 6.16w x 1.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/28\/1996 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/21\/2005 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Langston Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639907709084,"sku":"9780679764083","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bd44090a-c38a-4b0b-a567-514baece4dc9.jpg?v=1603850888","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-collected-poems-of-langston-hughes-9780679764083","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}