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I am the American heartbreak
The rock on which Freedom
Stumped its toe
The great mistake
That Jamestown made
Long ago.
Langston Hughes, American Heartbreak
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was Americas acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experienceand sufferingof African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. In this, his last collection of verse, Hughess voice is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as Prime, Motto, Dream Deferred, Frederick Douglass: 1817-1895, Still Here, Birmingham Sunday, History, Slave, Warning, and Daybreak in Alabama. Sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful, the poems inThe Panther and the Lashare the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time.

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Copyright 1967 by Arna Bontemps and George Houston Bass Executors of the - photo 1
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Copyright 1967 by Arna Bontemps and George Houston Bass, Executors of the Estate of Langston Hughes. Copyright 1932, 1934, 1942, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, by Langston Hughes. Copyright 1942, 1948 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright renewed 1970, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991 by Arna Bontemps and George Houston Bass. Copyright renewed 1960, 1962 by Langston Hughes.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. This edition first published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1967. Certain poems in this collection were previously published in the following books by Langston Hughes: Ask Your Mama (1961): Cultural Exchange Fields of Wonder (1947): Words Like Freedom, Oppression, Dream Dust The Langston Hughes Reader (1958): Elderly Leaders under the title Elderly Politicians Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951): Corner Meeting, Motto, Childrens Rhymes One-Way Ticket (1949): Harlem under the title Puzzled, Who But the Lord?, Third Degree, October 16: The Raid, Still Here, Florida Road Workers, Freedom under the title Democracy?, Warning under the title Roland Hayes Beaten, Daybreak in Alabama Scottsboro Limited (1932): Christ in Alabama, Justice Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1959): Dream Deferred under the title Harlem, American Heartbreak Georgia Dusk, Jim Crow Car under the title Lunch in a Jim Crow Car Shakespeare in Harlem (1942): Ku Klux, Merry-Go-Round Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hughes, Langston, 19021967.
The panther & the lash : poems of our times / Langston Hughes.
1st Vintage classics ed.
p. (Vintage classics)
eISBN: 978-0-307-94939-4
1. (Vintage classics)
eISBN: 978-0-307-94939-4
1.

Afro-AmericansPoetry. I. Title. II. Title: Panther and the lash. III.

Series.
PS3515.U274P3 1992
811.52dc20 91-50087 B9876 v3.1

BOOKS BY Langston Hughes
POETRY THE PANTHER AND THE LASH (1967) ASK YOUR MAMA (1961) SELECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES (1958) MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED (1951) ONE-WAY TICKET (1949) FIELDS OF WONDER (1947) SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM (1942) THE DREAM-KEEPER (1932) FINE CLOTHES TO THE JEW (1927) THE WEARY BLUES (1926) FICTION FIVE PLAYS BY LANGSTON HUGHES (1963) SOMETHING IN COMMON AND OTHER STORIES (1963) THE SWEET FLYPAPER OF LIFE (1955) LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM CRYING (1952) THE WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS (1934) NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER (1930) HUMOR SIMPLES UNCLE SAM (1965) BEST OF SIMPLE (1961) SIMPLE STAKES A CLAIM (1957) SIMPLE TAKES A WIFE (1953) SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND (1950) FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FIRST BOOK OF AFRICA (1964) THE FIRST BOOK OF THE WEST INDIES (1956) THE FIRST BOOK OF RHYTHMS (1954) THE FIRST BOOK OF JAZZ (1954) THE FIRST BOOK OF THE NEGROES (1952) with Arna Bontemps POPO AND FIFINA (1932) BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY FAMOUS NEGRO HEROES OF AMERICA (1958) I WONDER AS I WANDER (1956) FAMOUS NEGRO MUSIC-MAKERS (1955) FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGROES (1954) THE BIG SEA (1940) ANTHOLOGY THE LANGSTON HUGHES READER (1958) HISTORY with Milton Meltzer BLACK MAGIC: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT (1967) FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: THE STORY OF THE NAACP (1962) with Milton Meltzer A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA (1956) The author wishes to thank the editors of the following publications which first printed the poems specified:American Dialog: Final Call (1964) Black Orpheus: Angola Question Mark (1959) Colorado Review: Where? When? Which? (Winter 19567) Crisis: Question and Answer (1966) Free Lance: Without Benefit of Declaration (1955) Harpers Magazine: Long View: Negro (1965) Liberator: Junior Addict (1963), Frederick Douglass (1966), Northern Liberal (1963) The Nation: Crowns and Garlands (1967) Negro Digest: Mississippi (1965), Dinner Guest: Ma (1965) Opportunity: History (1934) Phylon: Little Song on Housing (1955), Vari-Colored Song (1952) La Poesie Negro-Americaine (1966): Bible Belt under the title Not for PublicationDefense de Publier Voices: Down Where I Am (1950)
To Rosa Parks of Montgomery
who started it all when, on being ordered to get up and stand at the back of the bus where there were no seats left, she said simply, My feet are tired, and did not move, thus setting off in 1955 the boycotts, the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the petitions, the marches, the voter registration drives, and I Shall Not Be Moved.
Contents
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WORDS ON FIRE
CORNER MEETING
Ladder, flag, and amplifier now are what the soap box used to be. The speaker catches fire, looking at listeners faces. His words jump down to stand in their places.
HARLEM
Here on the edge of hell Stands Harlem Remembering the old lies, The old kicks in the back, The old Be patient They told us before. Sure, we remember.

Now when the man at the corner store Says sugars gone up another two cents, And bread one, And theres a new tax on cigarettes We remember the job we never had, Never could get, And cant have now Because were colored. So we stand here On the edge of hell In Harlem And look out on the world And wonder What were gonna do In the face of what We remember.

PRIME
Uptown on Lenox Avenue Where a nickel costs a dime, In these lush and thieving days When million-dollar thieves Glorify their million-dollar ways In the press and on the radio and TV But wont let me Skim even a dime I, black, come to my prime In the section of the niggers Where a nickel costs a dime.
CROWNS AND GARLANDS
Make a garland of Leontynes and Lenas And hang it about your neck Like a lei. Make a crown of Sammys, Sidneys, Harrys, Plus Cassius Mohammed Ali Clay. Put their laurels on your brow Today Then before you can walk To the neighborhood corner, Watch them droop, wilt, fade Away.

Though worn in glory on my head, They do not last a day Not one Nor take the place of meat or bread Or rent that I must pay. Great names for crowns and garlands! Yeah! I love Ralph Bunche But I cant eat him for lunch.

ELDERLY LEADERS
The old, the cautious, the over-wise Wisdom reduced to the personal equation: Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. Elderly, Famous, Very well paid, They clutch at the egg Their masters Goose laid: $$$$$ $$$$ $$$ $$ $
THE BACKLASH BLUES
Mister Backlash, Mister Backlash, Just who do you think I am? Tell me, Mister Backlash, Who do you think I am? You raise my taxes, freeze my wages, Send my son to Vietnam. You give me second-class houses, Give me second-class schools, Second-class houses And second-class schools. You must think us colored folks Are second-class fools.

When I try to find a job To earn a little cash, Try to find myself a job To earn a little cash, All you got to offer Is a white backlash. But the world is big, The world is big and round, Great big world, Mister Backlash, Big and bright and round And its full of folks like me who are Black, Yellow, Beige, and Brown. Mister Backlash, Mister Backlash, What do you think I got to lose? Tell me, Mister Backlash, What you think I got to lose? Im gonna leave you, Mister Backlash, Singing your mean old backlash blues. Youre

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