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The Weary Blues: A Sublime Book
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralBlack American StudiesGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9781515467090
Publisher: Sublime Books
Published: Aug 14 2025
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes' groundbreaking debut, a vibrant celebration of Black life, music, and resilience at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Blending the rhythms of jazz and blues with the pulse of everyday experience, Hughes captures the joy, pain, and hope of a community in motion. From the smoky hum of a late-night piano to the restless dreams of a city that never sleeps, these poems sing with emotional depth and lyrical brilliance. This is not just a collection of verse-it's a living soundtrack of 1920s Harlem, as fresh and powerful today as when it first set the literary world alight.
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