Love to Langston
Author: Tony Medina
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781584302834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis inspiring biography on Langston Hughes celebrates his life through poetry.
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Not Without Laughter
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0486113906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoet Langston Hughes' only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Author: James Langston Hughes
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 0679426310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, 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.
Sail Away
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1481430858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan. The great African American poet Langston Hughes penned poem after poem about the majesty of the sea, and the great African American artist Ashley Bryan, who’s spent more than half his life on a small island, is as drawn to the sea as much as he draws the sea. Their talents combine in this windswept collection of illustrated poems—from “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” to “Seascape,” from “Sea Calm” to “Sea Charm”—that celebrates all things oceanic.
Finding Langston
Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0823441105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like he's giving up everything he loves. It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything-- Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved. In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn't feel like a new start, or a better life. At home he's lonely, his father always busy at work; at school he's bullied for being a country boy. But Langston's new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the Chicago Public Library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston--a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him. Lesa Cline-Ransome, author of the Coretta Scott King Honor picture book Before She Was Harriet, has crafted a lyrical debut novel about one boy's experiences during the Great Migration. Includes an author's note about the historical context and her research. Don't miss the companion novel, Leaving Lymon, which centers on one of Langston's classmates and explores grief, resilience, and the circumstances that can drive a boy to become a bully-- and offer a chance at redemption. A Junior Library Guild selection! A CLA Notable Children's Book in Language Arts A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, with 5 Starred Reviews A School Library Journal Best Book of 2018
When Langston Dances
Author: Kaija Langley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1534485198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by watching a performance of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, a young black boy longs to dance and enrolls in ballet school.
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
Author: Yuval Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0393243923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography “A complete pleasure to read.” —Lisa Page, Washington Post Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America’s greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other, they helped launch a radical journal, Fire!! Later, meeting by accident in Alabama, they became close as they traveled together—Hurston interviewing African Americans for folk stories, Hughes getting his first taste of the deep South. By illuminating their lives, work, competitiveness, and ambitions, Yuval Taylor savvily details how their friendship and literary collaborations dead-ended in acrimonious accusations.
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Author: Roy DeCarava
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTold through the eyes of the grandmotherly Sister Mary Bradley, this is a heartwarming description of life in Harlem.
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1990-09-12
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 067972818X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLangston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.
The Life of Langston Hughes
Author: Arnold Rampersad
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2002-01-10
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0195146425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second volume in this biography finds Langston Hughes rooting himself in Harlem, receiving stimulation from his rich cultural surroundings. Here he rethought his view of art and radicalism and cultivated relationships with younger, more militant writers such as Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.
