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Laddar... The Weary Blues (1926)av Langston Hughes
![]() Books Read in 2018 (1,733) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is the first book of poetry Hughes published, and the first poetry of his I've read. It's amazing. Most of these are very short poems, but they cover a wide range of subjects. Most are about Harlem in the 20s and the experience of being a black man in America. There are also love poems, picaresque poems, poems about the open ocean, and poems about trees. All of them are good. Some of them are truly great. I definitely want to read more of his work. ![]() ![]() From "Beggar Boy": "And yet he plays upon his flute a while free tune As if Fate had not bled him with her knife!" Langston Hughes had a remarkable background and life, which fed his poetry, of which this book is the starting example - lush, complex, and rewarding. I've added the URL below to send you further toward this writer: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/28/where-to-start-with-langston-hughe... ![]() inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like 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 the legendary Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 edition, "His cabaret songs throb with the true jazz rhythm; his sea-pieces ache with a calm, melancholy lyricism; he cries bitterly from the heart of his race. Always, however, his stanzas are subjective, personal," and, he concludes, they are the expression of "an essentially sensitive and subtly illusive nature." That illusive nature darts among these early lines and begins to reveal itself, with precocious confidence and clarity. In a new introduction to the work, the poet and editor Kevin Young suggests that Hughes from this very first moment is "celebrating, critiquing, and completing the American dream," and that he manages to take Walt Whitman's American "I" and write himself into it. We find here not only such classics as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and the great twentieth-century anthem that begins "I, too, sing America," but also the poet's shorter lyrics and fancies, which dream just as deeply. "Bring me all of your / Heart melodies," the young Hughes offers, "That I may wrap them / In a blue cloud-cloth / Away from the too-rough fingers / Of the world.""-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Yeah. There’s that. So I don’t know. I guess it is kinda fun, and honest, and occasionally thought-y, you know. If it had been re-worked, it could have been pop-soul lyrics, you know: not the bad stuff at all….
…. So yeah:
(Poet Hermes) In July, you can touch the sky….
(Scientist Hermes) No you can’t.
—Shut up.
—Don’t tell yourself to shut up.
…. The white man’s heart is as cold as ice
But the Black man dances, mighty nice