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Book · 1967 · Nonfiction

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes
Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 717 pages
★ 6.3 editorial score

Hughes wrote the blues into American poetry, plain-spoken and syncopated. He asked what happens to a dream deferred, and the playwright Lorraine Hansberry built A Raisin in the Sun from his answer.

Medium
Poetry
Time
1967

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