The Weary Blues

A celebration of music from beginning to end,TheWeary Bluesis the debut poetry collection by the foremost HarlemRenaissance poet, Langston Hughes.

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back andforth to a mellow croon, / I heard a Negro play. / Down on Lenox Avenue theother night / By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light / He did a lazy sway.. .

With these first lines, Hughes invites the reader into anexperimental playground that tells the story of a Black man's life in America.Featuring poems such as, "Dream Variations," "The Negro Speaksof Rivers," and "Our Land," Hughes weaves in and out of verse,highlighting the lows of struggle in the face of segregation and racism, butalso the highs of creation from the time when, "the Negroes were invogue."

Now considered to be an American classic,The WearyBluesembodies the feel of the rhythm, improvisation, and soul ofBlack classical music, pioneered the genre of "jazz poetry," and leftan irreplaceable mark in the African-American literary canon.

Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover,this edition ofThe Weary Bluesis a sensational reimaginingof a Harlem Renaissance staple for the modern reader.

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