The weary blues:
"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 a...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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."".. |
| Beschreibung: | XXVI, 91 S. |
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| adam_text | Nl.ARI.Y NINETY YEARS AFTER ITS l-IRST PIJIU.ICAI ION,
this lclebratory cdition of 7be Weary Blues reiniiu 1 s us of
the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was
just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning r wit h
the opening “Proem” (prologue poem)—“1 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
i
their voices were newly being heard in our literature. As the
legendary Carl Van Vechtcn 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, mclan-
jjjjjl *
clioly lyricism; he cries bitterly from the heart of his race . : .
Always, however, his stanzas are subjective, personal,’^ anil,
he concludes, they are the expression of “an essentially sen-
sitive and subtly illusive nature.” That illusive nature darts
among these early lines and begins to reveal itself,
precocious confidence and clarity.
In a new introduction to the work, the poer and
Kevin Young suggests that Hughes from this very first mo-
ment is “celebrating, critiquing, and completing the Amer-
ican dream,” and that he manages to take Walt Whitmans
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 poets shorter lyrics and fan-
cies, 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.”
with
itor
i.ANtíSTON iiu ;iii:s was born in
Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After
graduation from high school, he
spent a year in Mexico with his
father, then a year studying at
Golunihia University. Mis first poem
published in a nationally known
magazine was I he Negro Speaks of
Rivers,” which appeared in Crisis in
1921. In 1925, lie was awarded die hirst Prize for Poetry from
the magazine Opportunity for “ I he Weary Blues,” which gave
its title to this, his first book of poems. Hughes received his B.A.
from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1929. In 1943, he
was awarded an honorary Liu.I՝), by his alma mater; during his
lifetime, he was also awarded a Guggenheim fellowship (193 s)
a Rosenwald Fellowship (1940), and an American Academy of
Arts and Letters Grant (1947). From 1926 until his death in
1967, Hughes devoted his time to writing and lecturing. He
wrote poetry, short stories, autobiography, song lyrics, essays,
humor, and plays. A cross section of his work was published in
1958 as The Langston Hughes Reader; a Selected Poems first ap-
peared in 1959 and a Collected Poems in 1994. Today, his many
works and his contribution to American letters continue to be
cherished and celebrated around the world.
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