Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair by Bohemians Bootleggers Flappers & Swells- The Best of Early Vanity Fair (epub)

Author:Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells- The Best of Early Vanity Fair (epub)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

POEMS

LANGSTON HUGHES

FROM SEPTEMBER 1925

Langston Hughes’ poem, The Weary Blues, was awarded the first prize in the contest for Negro writers recently instituted by Opportunity. The judges were John Farrar, Witter Bynner, James Weldon Johnson, and Clement Wood. In January 1926, Alfred A. Knopf will publish a book of his verse. . . . The work of this poet is informed with a sensitivity and a nostalgia, racial in origin, for beauty, color, and warmth. His subjects are extraordinarily diversified. A lyric simplicity marks his sea pieces; his cabaret verses dance to the rhythm of Negro jazz; now he mourns for the hurt of the black man; again he celebrates the splendor of the women of Mexico or the savage beauty of the [inhabitants] of the African coast.

Although still a very young man, Langston Hughes has crowded more adventure into his life than most of us will experience. Born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Mo., he has lived in Mexico, Topeka, Kansas, Colorado Springs, Charlestown, Indiana, Lincoln, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, New York City, Staten Island, Pittsburgh, the West Coast of Africa, Holland, Paris, Desenzano, on Lago di Garda, Verona, Venice, and Genoa. His occupations have been as various as his peregrinations. He has acted as paper boy, hotel porter, soda-fountain boy, waiter, cook, errand boy at a florist’s, sailor, farmhand, advertising solicitor, pantry-man in an oyster house, book agent, and even as a beach-comber!

—CARL VAN VECHTEN

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