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The dream keeper and other poems / Langston Hughes ; illustrations by Helen Sewell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PS3515.U274 D7 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.
- 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:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 77 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Distribution:
- New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1986]
- Summary:
- A collection of fifty-nine poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.
- Contents:
- The dream keeper
- Winter moon
- Fairies
- Autumn thought
- Dreams
- April rain song
- After many springs
- Winter sweetness
- Quiet girl
- Poem
- Joy
- Water-front streets
- Long trip
- Sea calm
- Sailor
- Seascape
- Mexican market woman
- Beggar boy
- Parisian beggar woman
- Irish wake
- Death of an old seaman
- Sea charm
- Dressed up
- Reasons why
- Negro dancers
- The weary blues
- Homesick blues
- Wide river
- Minstrel man
- A black pierrot
- Bound no'th blues
- Song
- Passing love
- When Sue wears red
- Po' boy blues
- Song for a banjo dance
- Night and morn
- Feet o' Jesus
- Sinner
- Prayer
- Judgment day
- Ma lord
- Baby
- Lullaby
- Prayer meeting
- Walkers with the dawn
- African dance
- Aunt Sue's stories
- Alabama earth
- My people
- Lincoln Monument: Washington
- Dream variation
- Sun song
- The Negro speaks of rivers
- The Negro
- Mother to son
- As I grew older
- I, too
- Youth
- Notes:
- "Originally published in the Unted States by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 1932."--Verso of title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Dream keeper and other poems.
- ISBN:
- 0394910966
- 9780394910963
- OCLC:
- 12557567
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