The Hughes Blues

As an African American icon Hughes is beloved, and as a writer Hughes has lodged his handful of poems permanently in the public mind. This has been true since 1921 when his first published poem, written when he was still a teenager, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” caused a sensation in black America. Yet there remains a curious sense that Hughes’s poetry has never received the respect it deserves among the art’s cognoscenti. By Richard Abowitz.
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