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Poetry For Young People Series
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
May 2006
On Sale: April 28, 2006
48 pages
ISBN: 1402718454
EAN: 9781402718458
Hardcover
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Sterling proudly announces an exciting and vibrant addition
to Poetry for Young People: The first African-American
themed book in the series, featuring the poems of the
extraordinary Langston Hughes. Edited by the two leading
experts on Hughes’s work, and illustrated by the brilliant
Benny Andrews, this very special volume is one to treasure
forever.
A much-requested book that was years in the making…and well
worth the wait. One of the central figures in the Harlem
Renaissance—the flowering of black culture that took place
in the 1920s and 30s—Langston Hughes captured the soul of
his people, and gave voice to their concerns about race and
social justice. His magnificent and powerful words still
resonate today: that’s why it’s so important for young
people to have access to his poems. Now they do, in a
splendid volume edited and illustrated by a top-caliber
team who are simply the best in their fields.
The introduction, biography, and annotations come from
Arnold Rampersad, a Professor and Dean at Stanford
University, who has written The Life of Langston Hughes,
and David Roessel, co-editor with Professor Rampersad of
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes and editor of the
Langston Hughes collection in Knopf’s Everyman series.
Benny Andrews—a painter, printmaker, and arts advocate
whose work is in the permanent collection of the
Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the
Smithsonian, among others—has created gallery-quality
illustrations that pulse with energy and add rich dimension
to the poems.
Among the anthologized poems are Hughes’s best-known and
most loved works: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “Aunt Sue’s
Stories”; “Danse Africaine”; “Mother to Son”; “My
People”; “Words Like Freedom”; “Harlem”; and “I, Too”—his
sharp, pointed response to Walt Whitman’s earlier “I Hear
America Singing.”
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes is a publishing
event for all to celebrate.
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