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\nPhoto by Gordon Parks<\/p>\n
Langston
\nPhoto by Gordon Parks<\/p>\n
Langston Hughes<\/a> (February 1, 1902 \u2013 May 22, 1967)<\/p>\n Cross <\/a> On the Weary Blues<\/a><\/p>\n In The Big Sea Hughes reported that his “Weary Blues,” which won him his first poetry prize, “included the first blues [he’s] ever heard way back in Lawrence, Kansas, when [he] was a kid.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Watch the Weary Blues<\/a> (youtube)<\/p>\n Let American be America again<\/a><\/p>\n See photos by Roy DeCarava DeCarava DeCarava\u2019s photographs languished in a closet until he took them to Langston Hughes. \u201cI thought Hughes would enjoy them because they were so much about people,\u201d DeCarava told In These Times this February. \u201cHe was very touched and moved by the pictures and said, \u2018Let me try to get them published.\u2019\u201d Read Juke Box Love Song<\/a><\/p>\n I could take the Harlem night -Langston Hughes <\/p>\n History<\/p>\n The past has been a mint More Langston’s political poems here <\/a> <\/p>\n Roy DeCarava R.I.P <\/a> (previous post here).<\/p>\n Something unrelated:<\/p>\n
\nMy old man’s a white old man
\nAnd my old mother’s black.
\nIf ever I cursed my white old man
\nI take my curses back.
\nIf ever I cursed my black old mother
\nAnd wished she were in hell,
\nI’m sorry for that evil wish
\nAnd now I wish her well
\nMy old man died in a fine big house.
\nMy ma died in a shack.
\nI wonder were I’m going to die,
\nBeing neither white nor black? <\/p>\n
\nDE CARAVA, Roy, and HUGHES, Langston, The Sweet Flypaper of Life<\/a>, Washington, Howard University Press, 1984.<\/p>\n![\"DeCarava](\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/DeCarava-hallway1.jpg\" "\\"DeCarava")
Hallway
\nRoy de Carava <\/a><\/p>\n
\nHughes found Simon and Schuster willing to bring out the book, but only on the condition that Hughes write an accompanying text. DeCarava at that point relinquished control of the project, giving Hughes some 500 photographs from which to make a selection. Of the people he had photographed, DeCarava told Hughes nothing.
\nThe Sweet Flypaper of Life is not, then, a collaboration of writer and photographer, but a writer\u2019s response to photographs
\n (via)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nand wrap around you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nOf blood and sorrow.
\nThat must not be
\nTrue of tomorrow <\/p>\n
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were added to my previous post “American Psycho”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"