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The Panther and the Lash by Langston Hughes (Paperback)
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The last and most explicitly political book of verse by one of the great poets of our century. Published just before his death in 1967, Hughes' sometimes bitter, sometimes ironic, but always powerful poems address the racial politics of the 1960s.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House USA Inc, Vintage Books
ISBN-10067973659x
ISBN-139780679736592
eBay Product ID (ePID)183731158
Product Key Features
AuthorLangston Hughes
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationNew York
Author BiographyLangston Hughes 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 Columbia University.His first poem in a nationally known magazine was The Negro Speaks of Rivers, which appeared in Crisis in 1921.In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine Opportunity, the winning poem being The Weary Blues, which gave its title to his first book of poems, published in 1926.As a result of his poetry, Mr. Hughes received a scholarship at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he won his B.A. in 1929.In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Litt.D. by his alma mater; he has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1935), a Rosenwald Fellowship (1940), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant (1947).From 1926 until his death in 1967, Langston 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.
Out-Of-Print Date11/12/2011
Country of PublicationUnited States
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