The weary blues

Langston Hughes

first published 1926 Brilliance Audio, 2022 audiobook

"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...

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Weary Blues edition · 2023 · Mint Editions · 9798888975213
Weary Blues edition · 2022 · West Margin Press · 9781513139098
The Weary Blues paperback · 2022 · Mint Editions · 100 pages · 9781513203607
Weary Blues edition · 2022 · Dover Publications, Incorporated · 9780486850566
Weary Blues edition · 2022 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781504073738
Weary Blues edition · 2022 · Dover Publications, Incorporated · 96 pages · 9780486849010
Weary Blues edition · 2022 · Martino Fine Books · 9781684226597
Weary Blues edition · 2022 · Digireads.com Publishing · 9781420980905
Weary Blues edition · 2022 · Digireads.com Publishing · 9781420980776
The Weary Blues audiobook · 2022 · Brilliance Audio · 9781713631453
The weary blues edition · 2015 · Alfred A. Knopf · 91 pages · 9780385352970

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