"Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance ... In a new introduction to the work, the poet and editor Kevin Young suggests that Hughes from this very moment is 'celebrating, critiquing, and completing the American dream, ' and that he manages to take Walt Whitman's American 'I' and write himself into it"--From publisher description.
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