The Panther and the Lash

Hughes's last collection of poems commemorates the experience of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear-the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time."Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience." -The Philadelphia InquirerFrom the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color.
Here, Hughes's voice-sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful-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 Douglas: 1817-1895, " "Still Here, " "Birmingham Sunday." " History, " "Slave, " "Warning, " and "Daybreak in Alabama."