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,
“... and constriction, beating, as he put it in ‘The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain’, ‘the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in ... ”