03105cam a2200313 i 4500 2258199593 TxAuBib 20250522120000.0 240606s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024024422 9781538768914 hardcover 1538768917 hardcover TxAuBib rda Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author. Blues in Stereo : the Early Works of Langston Hughes, 1921-1927 / Langston Hughes ; curated by Danez Smith. First edition. New York, NY : Legacy Lit, an imprint of Hachette Books, 2024. ©2024. xix, 124 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A song to a Negro wash-woman -- Mother to son -- The Negro speaks of rivers -- Young prostitute -- Dream variation -- Proem [originally published as "The Negro"] -- Lament for dark peoples -- My people -- Minstrel man -- Song for a banjo dance -- Jazzonia -- Negro dancers -- Cabaret -- Young singer -- Prayer meeting -- Harlem night club -- The south -- Seascape -- Caribbean sunset -- Mexican market woman -- The white ones -- Gods -- Our land (poem for a decorative panel) -- Railroad avenue -- Elevator boy -- To certain intellectuals -- Steel mills -- Brothers -- Fascination -- Fire-caught -- My beloved -- Poem (to F.S.) -- Song for a suicide -- Poem -- The poppy flower -- Shadows -- Autumn note [published under the pseudonym J. Crutchfield Thompson] -- Epitaph [published under the pseudonym J. Crutchfield Thompson] -- The naughty child -- Poem for youth -- Youth -- Lullaby -- To beauty -- Cocko' the world, the incomplete work with Duke Ellington: Cocko' the world -- Cocko' the world a music-play -- Notes on play -- Moon magic -- War is war -- A land of sun -- Song of adornment -- I'll drop my anchor with you -- My little black diamond -- I own the world -- Kalulu -- Work song of the diamond miners -- After the ship is gone -- Airplane factories -- Formula. Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes was most well-known for his poems, novels, and plays that highlight Black American life in post-slavery America. Hughes published his first book of poetry with Knopf in 1926 as well as poems with Yale University and small, grassroots literary magazines. Today, he stands as one of the greatest literary innovators. Blues in Stereo zooms in on Hughes's early work (1919-1929). National Book Award finalist Danez Smith joins as curator for this work, offering an introduction on Hughes's lyrical, evocative, and award-winning poetry and notes on the formation of his signature style and craft. Collected from libraries and little-known publications across the country, Blues in Stereo features some of Hughes's earliest undiscovered writings. 20250522. African Americans Literary collections. Literature. lcgft Smith, Danez, editor.