Daddy, ain’t you heard?
Mark Ford: Langston Hughes’s Journeys, 16 November 2023
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes
edited by Christopher C. De Santis.
Oxford, 339 pp., £32, August 2022,978 0 19 285504 6 Show More
edited by Christopher C. De Santis.
Oxford, 339 pp., £32, August 2022,
“... speakers, even when this risked association with the demeaning patter of blackface routines:Heard de owl a hootin’,Knowed somebody’s ’bout to die,Heard de owl a hootin’,Knowed somebody’s ’bout to die,Put my head un’neath de kiver,Started in to moan ... ”