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The Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes
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Title Description THE VOICE OF THE POET A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliograohy, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review. "Hearing poetry spoken by the poet is always a unique illumination. This series opens our ears to some of the most passionate utterances and enthralling performances ever recorded."--Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize winner, Poetry "There has been a great need for a well-edited audio series for poetry, with high literary and technical quality. J. D. McClatchy has filled this need with great style."--Robert Pinsky Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was a writer of astonishing range. Poetry, fiction, plays, autobiography, essays, libretti for operas and Broadway musicals, and cantatas--work streamed from his desk. It is as a poet, though, that he is best known, and his place at the center of the Harlem Renaissance was enormously influential. He was the first African-American to write civil-rights protest poetry, as well as the first to use jazz and the blues as a basis for a literary style. Few poets have ever portrayed so vividly the black experience, its triumphs and travails, and in a language that cunningly dramatizes the folk vernacular. Hughes was born in Missouri, worked as a manual laborer and traveled the world--the better, in the end, to know intimately the realities of urban life for the displaced and rootless. He wrote with eloquence, humor, and a deep humanity. Recommendations Customers who ordered this book also ordered: 1. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd; read by Eliza Foss. (CD or Tape) 2. The Letters by Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger; read by Bruce Turk and Donna Rawlins. (CD or Tape) 3. Hot Mahogany by Stuart Woods; read by Tony Roberts. (CD or Tape) Customer Reviews Have you listened to this audiobook? Please submit your ratings and review it! |
