Blues in Stereo (eBook)

The Early Works of Langston Hughes

Autor: Langston Hughes

CHF 5.95

ISBN: 978-1-4087-7324-6

Einband: Adobe Digital Editions

Verfügbarkeit: Noch nicht erschienen, November 2024

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Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City, seeking funds to pursue his passion. His early poems, beloved verses like "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," were written without formal training, often on the back of napkins and envelopes, and were inspired by the sights and sounds of Black working-class people he encountered in his early life.

Blues in Stereo is a posthumous collection of these early works, in which we see Langston Hughes like we've never seen him before. In the intimate pages of his handwritten journals, you will travel with Hughes outside of Harlem as he ventures to the American South and Mexico, sails through the Caribbean, and becomes the only Harlem renaissance poet to visit Africa. He celebrates love as a tool of liberation in his poems and journal entries. His songs included showcase musicality of verse poetry. And the book even includes a play he co-wrote with Duke Ellington with a full score that experiments with rhythm and structure.

Blues in Stereo portrays a young man coming of age in a changing world. Page by page, a young, fresh-faced Hughes contends with matters beyond his years with raw talent. National Book Award nominated poet Danez Smith offers their insight and notes on themes, challenges, and obsessions that Hughes early work contains. Blues in Stereo foreshadows a master poet that will go on to define literature for centuries to come.

Autor	Langston Hughes
Verlag	Dialogue
Einband	Adobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr	2024
Lieferstatus	Noch nicht erschienen, November 2024
Ausgabekennzeichen	Englisch
Plattform	EPUB

Über den Autor Langston Hughes

James Langston Hughes (1902-1967) es uno de los escritores negros más destacados del siglo xx. Poeta, autor de numerosos relatos, autor de musicales y de óperas, fue un activista de los derechos de los negros en EE¿UU y un penetrante observador de las diferencias raciales en los lugares más apartados del mundo. Viajó por su país, por Centroamérica y Europa, estuvo en España durante la Guerra Civil, en la URSS y en Extremo Oriente, y de todos estos lugares nos ofrece una crónica tan brillante como minuciosa. Entre sus obras cabe destacar sus dos autobiografías, The Big Sea (1940) y I Wonder As I Wander (1956), que ahora ofrecemos en edición completa. Sus poemas: The Weary Blues (1925 y 1926), Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943, un verdadero panfleto en verso), Fields of Wonder (1947), etc. Ha escrito novelas y numerosos relatos cortos, entre las primeras, Not Without Langhter (1930); entre los relatos, The Ways of White Folks (1934), Laughing to Keep from Crying (1952), The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), un relato sobre Harlem con fotografías de Roy DeCarava. Ha sido libretista de Kurt Weill y de Elmer Rice y es autor de musicales y óperas: Simply Heavenly (1957), Black Nativity (1961), The Prodigal Son (1961), Troubled Island (1949), The Barrier (1950), Esther (1957), etc. También ha escrito teatro de agitación, Don't You Want to Be Free?, que se estrenó en el teatro fundado por él mismo, Harlem Suitcase Theater (1938). En 1962 escribió una historia de la NAACP por encargo de la organización: Fight for Freedom: The story of the NAACP.