{"product_id":"the-panther-the-lash-9780679736592","title":"The Panther \u0026 the Lash","description":"\u003cb\u003eHughes's last collection of poems commemorates the experience of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear--the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color. Here, Hughes's voice--sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful--is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as \"Prime,\" \"Motto,\" \"Dream Deferred,\" \"Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895,\" \"Still Here,\" \"Birmingham Sunday.\" \" History,\" \"Slave,\" \"Warning,\" and \"Daybreak in Alabama.\"\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 02\/04\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679736592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.14w x 0.37d","brand":"Langston Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44848904011957,"sku":"9780679736592","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f34dd229-f484-42f3-ae96-94da12492051.jpg?v=1732634209","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-panther-the-lash-9780679736592","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}