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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World (Life…

by Arnold Rampersad

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I love both volumes I and II. It took a while to read both, and thought I knew he had died, as the book began to detail his last few months, I began to really get sad, and as he died, I literally was in tears. I'm not a crier, and I read this book while on the stationary bike at the gym. As he was dying I was feeling as if I was losing a friend. I must have really gotten emotionally invested in the book because I suddenly had to leave the gym and go home. It was as if some one called me on my cell to tell me someone I cared about had died. This was a great book. ( )
  Daij | Aug 7, 2009 |
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Rampersad, one of our foremost African-American scholars, is an apt biographer for Hughes (1902-67), our greatest black poet. I, Too, Sing America (volume 1) covers the years during which Hughes produced his best work and was most politically active; Dream a World (volume 2) chronicles his artistic decline due to overwork in= response to perpetual financial difficulties. Both volumes are psychologically astute, critically penetrating and masterful in their intermingling of Hughes' story with a chronicle of the enormous changes that took place in black America during his lifetime.

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