{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-langston-hughes","title":"The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. Hughes is sumptuous and sharp  playful and sparse  grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation.\"--Boston Globe  Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form)  this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here  for the first time  are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime  arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.  Alongside such famous works as \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" and Montage of a Dream Deferred  The Collected Poems includes the authors lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as \"Goodbye Christ\" that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent  passionate and polemical  the result is a treasure of a book  the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.  From the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983973019701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679426310","price":84.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679426318.jpg?v=1770816928","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-collected-poems-of-langston-hughes","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}