The Weary Blues: Large Print Edition - Paperback

by Langston Hughes (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)

Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1901, was a leading Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Hughes invented jazz poetry

Regardless of whether he was gay, bisexual, or asexual (all of which have been debated), Langston Hughes was certainly a prominent LGBT figure in the 1920s.

The Mint Editions edition of The Weary Blues will be a premiere title in our Harlem Renaissance library.

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"Sweet Blues! / Coming from a Black man's soul. / Oh Blues! / In a deep song voice and melancholy tone." Featuring over five dozen poems that meld lyric to narrative, The Weary Blues is the award-winning introduction to jazz poetry and one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes.