Description: This generous volume is a genuine literary milestone, the first comprehensive collection of the verse of a writer who has been called both the poet laureate of African America and our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. The book contains 860 poems, including all the verse that Hughes published during his lifetime, and nearly 300 that have never before appeared in book form.
Review Quotes: "Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
--Boston Globe "[Hughes's] poetry has a pulse, a beauty and familiar kindness. . . . Much of it delights, even dazzles. His best work sticks with you--forever."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer