![]() He said, What Does K stand for I said, K- And nothing more. The poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967 and represent work from his entire career, including “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “The Weary Blues,” “Still Here,” “Song for a Dark Girl,” “Montage of a Dream Deferred,” and “Refugee in America.” It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity. from The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes The census man, The day he came round, Wanted my name To put it down. In his collection of poems entitled Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), Langston Hughesobserved and gave a particularly original restitution of the historic evolution ofAfrican-American culture.1 Montage was, indeed, largely shaped by the impact of thetransformation of Black music as well as the hopes and dreams of African. ![]() They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out “wonder and pain and terror-and the marrow of the bone of life.” The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who “rushed the boots of Washington” of musicians on Lenox Avenue of the poor and the lovesick of losers in “the raffle of night.” They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. ![]() From the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. ![]()
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