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Article: Arnold Rampersad, ed. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes.(Book Review)
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- African American Review
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- June 22, 2003
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Vol. 1, Poems (1921-1940); Vol. 2, Poems (1941-1950); Vol. 3, Poems (1951-1967) Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2001. $29.95 each.
These volumes of the work of Langston Hughes are the first three of a projected eighteen which, as the dust-jacket tells us, "are to be published with the same goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people." The publication of these three volumes reflects the long sustained effort of their general editor, Arnold Rampersad, to represent Langston Hughes to a new, contemporary audience. Hughes has had an audience of significance since the publication in 1921 of his first poem "The Negro Speaks of ...