Hughes, Langston
Summary: A board book adaptation of Langston Hughes's beloved poem celebrates the endearing love between a mother and a baby and is complemented by painted collage illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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Summary: "This unprecedented collection of Langston Hughes's letters is arranged by decades, with helpful interstitial material and notes throughout to guide us through Hughes's journey in all its aspects: literary, personal, political, practical. His correspondents include such luminaries as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Ezra Pound, Countee Cullen, Paul Robeson, and Richard Wright. The letters tell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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Summary: A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2001
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Contents: v. 1. The poems, 1921-1940 -- v. 2. The poems, 1941-1950 -- v. 3. The poems, 1951-1967 -- v. 4. The novels: Not without laughter and Tambourines to glory -- v. 5. The plays to 1942: Mulatto to The sun do move -- v. 6. Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works -- v. 8. The later Simple stories -- v. 9. Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs -- v. 10. Fight for freedom and other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2001
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Summary: Powerful poems dealing with the most compelling issues of this African American's time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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Summary: Discusses Black history on the social, political, economic, and cultural fronts and includes over 1,000 pictures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.0496 HUGHughes, Langston
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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Summary: Langston Hughes's poetry launched a revolution among black writers in America. The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGHughes, Langston
Summary: "Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares...An African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but he dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Hughes 2017Reynolds, Jason
Summary: A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE REYMerrell, Billy
Summary: "Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUGHUGHES, LANGSTON, ED
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1970
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: I was saved from sin when I was going on 13. But not really saved. It happened like this. So begins this powerful dramatization of "Salvation," Langston Hughes' eloquent autobiographical story that illustrates how his aunt's well-meaning efforts to bring him into the spiritual fold resulted in a moral crisis. Calmly waiting for Jesus to appear to him in the hot, crowded church, young Langston's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Meltzer, Milton
Summary: Tells the story of a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s who devoted his life to writing about the black experience in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, LANGSTON MELSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory.--Amazon.com
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG REYKing, Yolanda Renee
Summary: "The granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King delivers a stirring tribute to her grandparents that speaks to children everywhere about her hopes for a new future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024