The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
- ISBN-10
- 0679426310
- ISBN-13
- 9780679426318
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 708
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Knopf Publishing Group
- Author
- James Langston Hughes
Description
Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.
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