The Panther & the Lash

by Langston Hughes

2021-01-02 06:57:19

From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America''s acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear.... Read more
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America''s acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear.  In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes''s voice is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as "Prime," "Motto," "Dream Deferred," "Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895," "Still Here," "Birmingham Sunday." " History," "Slave," "Warning," and "Daybreak in Alabama." Sometimes Ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful, the poems in The Panther and the Lash are the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time. Less

Book Details

File size8 X 5.2 X 0.3 in
Print pages128
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date February 4, 1992
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679736592
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the...

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