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Article: Looking at Langston's Works. (Books).(The Collected Works of Langston Hughes)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volumes 1 to 3 (of 12)
Edited by Arnold Rampersad
University of Missouri Press
LANGSTON Hughes wrote in his words that are a godsend to anyone who considers writing as a profession: "Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise you are dead." In his essay, "The Negro and the Racial Mountain," Hughes proudly proclaimed that a writer does not have to adhere to a political program, but should only pay attention to the impulse that makes him or her write. Such words of independence and artistic freedom should make Hughes a poet to whom other poets turn for inspiration.
Instead, Hughes is the odd ...