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Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes (100th Anniversary Edition)

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes (100th Anniversary Edition)

100th Anniversary Edition

by Langston HughesDavid Roessel Arnold Rampersad and others
Hardback
Age range: + years old Publication Date: 26/10/2021

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Celebrate 100 years of Langston Hughes's powerful poetry.

A Coretta Scott King Honor Award recipient, Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes includes 26 of the poet's most influential pieces, including: "Mother to Son"; "My People"; "Words Like Freedom"; "I, Too"; and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"--Hughes's first published piece, which was originally released in June 1921. This collection is curated and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, two leading poetry experts. It also features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews and a new foreword by Ren e Watson, a Newbery Honor Award recipient and founder of the I, Too Arts Collective.

ISBN:
9781454943754
9781454943754
Category:
Literature
Age range:
+ years old
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
26-10-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Sterling Publishing Co Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
254x215.9mm
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most influential and esteemed writers of the twentieth century, was born in Joplin, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Kansas before moving to Harlem.

His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published in 1926; its success helped him to win a scholarship to Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, from which he received his B.A. in 1929 and an honorary Litt.D. in 1943. Among his other awards and honors were a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rosenwald Fellowship, and a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Hughes published more than thirty-five books, including works of poetry, short stories, novels, an autobiography, musicals, essays, and plays. 

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