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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: The Power of Words
Comments: Langston Hughes: Poet, truth-teller, gifted wordsmith who can cover both the sacred and profane. A fighter, a dreamer, a student, a sailor. He speaks to eone, any color or creed. He speaks to oppressed people who will never give up. He speaks to me, and to you. He speaks loudly and clearly, with a unique, indelible hand. His poems and stories stand tall...his defiance and dignity remains an inspiration to anyone who has had a "dream deferred", however "gathers out of cloud-dust, storm-dust, and splinters of hail,1handful of dream-dust, not for sale".
The Last Feast of Belshazzar (Langston Hughes)
The jeweled entrails of pomegranetes
Bled on the marble floor
The jewel-heart of a virgin broke at the
golden door
The laughter of a drunken lord hid the sob
of a silken whore
Mene,
wrote a strange hand
Mene Tekel Upharsin,-
And death stood at the door |
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Summary: Langston Hughes, Personal history
Comments: The book is worth purchasing for the biographical background. His youth and adulthood were tough and lonely. Hughes seems to have lost his religion early in life. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Comments: Excellent book and historical treasure that I intend to pass down to my grandchildren in the future. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Our finest American poet finally properly and comprehensively collected, with corrected chronology and annotations
Comments: More than the exiled Eliott, greater than Walt Whitman, consistently clearer than Ginsberg, more powerful than Pound, freer than Frost, more American than Wallace Stevens, moreso even than the mighty Merton, here at long last is our greatest American poet receiving over-due respect.
A thick tome I purchased for my English learners which will instead fill my bed and my head for many cold and lonesome months ahead. Like the collected Poe, the collected Giovanni, an essential element to any American literature shelf, here for the 1st time meticulously researched and reported, with promise for more should any further works emerge. This is our American voice, clear and strong. This is the consummate volume of this great American poet, the1who wrote:
"( . . .) I have known rivers, ancient dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
May we once more grow deep with him, and by him. Read him, once more, here, complete and correct. Read him, and recall our America. Read him. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: This guy blows me out of the water
Comments: I prefer his earlier stuff however there are poems in this book that make the entire thing worth it. Nude Young Dancer, Minstrel Song and countless others made me want to weep and smile. What can I say, I felt this guys pain... |
