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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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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
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Afro-AmericansPoetry. I. Title. II. Title: Panther and the lash. III.
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PS3515.U274P3 1992
811.52dc20 91-50087 B9876 v3.1
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.
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.
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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