The weary blues
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About This Book
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when he was just twenty-four.From the opening "Proem" (prologue poem) he offers in this first book-"I am a Negro: / Black as night is black, / Black the depths of my Africa"-Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans, at a time when their voices were newly being heard in our literature. As his Knopf editor Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 volume, illuminating the potential of this promising young voice, "His cabaret song...
Chapters (169)(click to expand)
- THE WEARY BLUES
- THE WEARY BLUES
- INTRODUCING LANGSTON HUGHES TO THE READER
- I
- II
- CONTENTS
- PROEM
- THE WEARY BLUES
- THE WEARY BLUES
- JAZZONIA
- NEGRO DANCERS
- THE CAT AND THE SAXOPHONE (2 A.M.)
- YOUNG SINGER
- CABARET
- TO MIDNIGHT NAN AT LEROY’S
- TO A LITTLE LOVER-LASS, DEAD
- HARLEM NIGHT CLUB
- NUDE YOUNG DANCER
- YOUNG PROSTITUTE
- TO A BLACK DANCER IN “THE LITTLE SAVOY”
- SONG FOR A BANJO DANCE
- BLUES FANTASY
- LENOX AVENUE: MIDNIGHT
- DREAM VARIATIONS
- DREAM VARIATIONS
- WINTER MOON
- POÈME D’AUTOMNE
- FANTASY IN PURPLE
- MARCH MOON
- JOY
- THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
- THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS—(To W. E. B. DuBois)
- CROSS
- THE JESTER
- THE SOUTH
- AS I GREW OLDER
- AUNT SUE’S STORIES
- POEM
- BLACK PIERROT
- A BLACK PIERROT
- HARLEM NIGHT SONG
- SONGS TO THE DARK VIRGIN
- ARDELLA
- POEM—To the Black Beloved
- WHEN SUE WEARS RED
- PIERROT
- WATER FRONT STREETS
- WATER FRONT STREETS
- A FAREWELL
- LONG TRIP
- PORT TOWN
- SEA CALM
- CARIBBEAN SUNSET
- YOUNG SAILOR
- SEASCAPE
- NATCHA
- SEA CHARM
- DEATH OF AN OLD SEAMAN
- SHADOWS IN THE SUN
- BEGGAR BOY
- TROUBLED WOMAN
- SUICIDE’S NOTE
- SICK ROOM
- SOLEDAD—A Cuban Portrait
- TO THE DARK MERCEDES OF “EL PALACIO DE AMOR”
- MEXICAN MARKET WOMAN
- AFTER MANY SPRINGS
- YOUNG BRIDE
- THE DREAM KEEPER
- POEM—(To F. S.)
- OUR LAND
- OUR LAND—Poem for a Decorative Panel
- LAMENT FOR DARK PEOPLES
- AFRAID
- POEM—For the portrait of an African boy after the manner of Gauguin
- SUMMER NIGHT
- DISILLUSION
- DANSE AFRICAINE
- THE WHITE ONES
- MOTHER TO SON
- POEM
- EPILOGUE
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