{"product_id":"the-poems-1921-1940-lh1-9780826213396","title":"The Poems 1921-1940 (Lh1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume 1 includes the complete texts of four books of verse by Hughes, including his first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Weary Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), and his second, \u003ci\u003eFine Clothes to the Jew\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), as well as other poems published by him during and after the Harlem Renaissance. \u003ci\u003eThe Weary Blues\u003c\/i\u003e announced the arrival of a rare voice in American poetry. A literary descendant of Walt Whitman (\"I, too, sing America,\" Hughes wrote), he chanted the joys and sorrows of black America in unprecedented language. A gifted lyricist, he offered rhythms and cadences that epitomized the particularities of African American creativity, especially jazz and the blues. His second volume, steeped in the blues and controversial because of its frankness, confirmed Hughes as a poet of uncompromising integrity. Then in the 1930s came \u003ci\u003eDear Lovely Death\u003c\/i\u003e (1931) and the radical \u003ci\u003eA New Song\u003c\/i\u003e (1938). Poems such as \"Good Morning Revolution\" and \"Let America Be America Again\" made his pen one of the most forceful in America during the Great Depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hughes, Langston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Missouri Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826213396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.42w x 1.06d","brand":"Langston Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39364464836683,"sku":"9780826213396","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_c55fa637-d596-4002-ab2d-3251c92678e2.jpg?v=1621353989","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-poems-1921-1940-lh1-9780826213396","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}