With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues , in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America.
The Poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who ``rushed the boots of Washington``; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in ``the raffle of night.`` They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic li.
With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues , in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America