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The dream keeper and other poems / Langston Hughes including seven additional poems ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PS3515.U274 D7 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry, American.
- African Americans--Juvenile poetry.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Poetry.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 83 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], [1994]
- Summary:
- A collection of sixty-six poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.
- Contents:
- Dream keeper: Dream keeper; Winter moon; Dreams; Winter sweetness; April rain song; Joy; After many springs; Quiet girl; Fairies; Autumn thought; Poem
- Sea charm: Sea charm; Water-front streets; Long trip; Death of an old seaman; Seascape; Sailor; Irish wake; Beggar boy; Parisian beggar woman; Mexican market woman; Sea calm
- Dressed up: Note on blues; Dressed up; Bound no'th blues; Song; The weary blues; Negro dancers; Song for a banjo dance; Reasons why; Minstrel man; Po' boy blues; When Sue wears red; A black Pierrot; Wide river; Passing love; Homesick blues; Night and morn
- Feet o' Jesus: Feet o' Jesus; Baby; Ma lord; Judgment day; Lullaby; Prayer; Sinner; Prayer meeting
- Walkers with the dawn: Walkers with the dawn; Dream variation; The Negro; My people; Sun song; The Negro speaks of rivers; I, too; Mother to son; Youth; Alabama earth; Lincoln Monument: Washington; Aunt Sue's stories; As I grew older; African dance
- Additional poems: Snail; Stars; Dream dust; Color; Daybreak in Alabama; Merry-go-round; In time of silver rain
- Personal note / Augusta Baker.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- Introduction (pages x-xi) by Lee Bennett Hopkins.
- "Book design by Ann Bobco."--T.p. verso.
- "The artwork for this book was done in scratchboard, a technique in which a white board is covered with black ink. The ink is then scratched off with a sharp tool to reveal white underneath."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "First paperback edition: December 1996."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy dust jacket back cover has post-it note.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "First paperback edition: December 1996".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Dream keeper and other poems.
- ISBN:
- 067984421X
- 9780679844211
- 0679944214
- 9780679944218
- 0394810961
- 9780394810966
- 0394910966
- 9780394910963
- 0679883479
- 9780679883470
- OCLC:
- 25711946
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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