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Author: David Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780906480090
Category : Swansea (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: James Langston Hughes
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0679426310
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.

Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Poetry for Young People
ISBN: 9781454943754
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Celebrate 100 years of Langston Hughes's powerful poetry. A Coretta Scott King Honor Award recipient, Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes includes 26 of the poet's most influential pieces, including: "Mother to Son"; "My People"; "Words Like Freedom"; "I, Too"; and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"--Hughes's first published piece, which was originally released in June 1921. This collection is curated and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, two leading poetry experts. It also features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews and a new foreword by Renée Watson, a Newbery Honor Award recipient and founder of the I, Too Arts Collective.

Author: David Hughes
Publisher: Lendal Press
ISBN: 9781908853547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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David Hughes was born and raised in Liverpool. He taught English literature and language from 1975 to 2004 at St Peter's School, York. When he died in 2011, he left a little over two hundred poems, preoccupied with the impact of war upon the individual, the landscapes of mountainous and glacial northern Europe, the ecology of school, his friends, Wales, Liverpool, York, moments of communal celebration, the eulogy. Many of them were informed by two pivotal events which would shape his poetry. The first was his witnessing the death of his friend and colleague Barry Daniel in a mountaineering accident in 1986. The second was an incident in 2008 in which his throat was cut by a young friend, who was imprisoned for six months. During that time David wrote a sequence of poems about their friendship, about his forgiveness and about their differing experiences of that sentence. This collection has been edited by Antony Dunn, a friend of David Hughes who attended St Peter's School from 1986 to 1991. He is author of three collections of poetry; Pilots and Navigators (Oxford University Press 1998), Flying Fish (Carcanet Oxford Poets 2004) and Bugs (Carcanet Oxford Poets 2009).

Author: Karmele Jaio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912109555
Category : Amnesia
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Her Mother's Hands is an examination of the deepest human bonds and a beautiful and moving tribute to life.

Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385353561
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and—above all—literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his father (who opposed Langston’s literary ambitions), and to friends, fellow artists, critics, and readers who sought him out by mail. These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Kurt Weill, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Muhammad Ali. The letters tell the story of a determined poet precociously finding his mature voice; struggling to realize his literary goals in an environment generally hostile to blacks; reaching out bravely to the young and challenging them to aspire beyond the bonds of segregation; using his artistic prestige to serve the disenfranchised and the cause of social justice; irrepressibly laughing at the world despite its quirks and humiliations. Venturing bravely on what he called the “big sea” of life, Hughes made his way forward always aware that his only hope of self-fulfillment and a sense of personal integrity lay in diligently pursuing his literary vocation. Hughes’s voice in these pages, enhanced by photographs and quotations from his poetry, allows us to know him intimately and gives us an unusually rich picture of this generous, visionary, gratifyingly good man who was also a genius of modern American letters.

Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062643703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain’s most important poets. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific children’s writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letterwriter since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. His lifelong quest to come to terms with the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, is the saddest and most infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry. Hughes left behind a more complete archive of notes and journals than any other major poet, including thousands of pages of drafts, unpublished poems, and memorandum books that make up an almost complete record of Hughes’s inner life, which he preserved for posterity. Renowned scholar Jonathan Bate has spent five years in the Hughes archives, unearthing a wealth of new material. His book offers, for the first time, the full story of Hughes’s life as it was lived, remembered, and reshaped in his art.

Author: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807176494
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture. The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill marks a significant development in literary recovery efforts related to Assia Wevill (1927–1969), who remains a critically important figure in the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Editors Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter K. Steinberg located over 150 texts authored by Assia Wevill and curated them into a collected scholarly edition of her letters, journals, poems, and other creative writings. These documents chronicle her personal and professional lives, her experiences as a single working mother in 1960s London, her domestic life with Hughes, and her celebrated translations of poetry by Yehuda Amichai. The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill offers an invaluable documentary resource for understanding a woman whose life continues to captivate readers and scholars.

Author: David Morley
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN: 9781847772060
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Over the past 25 years, award-winning writer David Morley has become known as one of Britain's most original poets. Renowned for his energy and linguistic inventiveness, Morley is a master storyteller. From Romani tales to sharply observed lyrics about nature, from political allegory to vividly imagined histories, the poetry in this collection evokes the enchantment and truth of the natural world and our place in it.

Author: Shirley Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406372427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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