tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post1328741413244647219..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: sometimes life makes its own books - they do if you're Langston Hughes - his memoir The Big SeaAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-37105263228423340972020-09-16T20:15:56.381-05:002020-09-16T20:15:56.381-05:00Very helpful - much obliged!Very helpful - much obliged!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-80764396940274189862020-09-16T20:06:23.715-05:002020-09-16T20:06:23.715-05:00Hughes's Selected Poems (1958) is the obvious ...Hughes's <i>Selected Poems</i> (1958) is the obvious choice, but <i>The Weary Blues</i> (1926) especially is worth reading as a whole.<br /><br />His "blues" poems are no longer the revelation they were at the time - we are used to the blues - but still.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67868282364946564832020-09-16T19:55:28.741-05:002020-09-16T19:55:28.741-05:00This memoir sounds pretty great, but I'm hopin...This memoir sounds pretty great, but I'm hoping to dip into some of Hughes' poetry again after a long absence from it - the horror! Do you happen to have any recommendations (collections, anthologies, whatever) along those lines? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-66409928375684258712019-01-28T23:31:48.329-06:002019-01-28T23:31:48.329-06:00This is an eminently readable book.
Larsen, yes, ...This is an eminently readable book.<br /><br />Larsen, yes, that one and <i>Quicksand</i>, soonish. Soonishish. Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-70074198312974811542019-01-28T22:23:05.511-06:002019-01-28T22:23:05.511-06:00I'd never heard of this, but now I want to rea...I'd never heard of this, but now I want to read it!<br /><br />So are you going to read Passing soon? Man, I love that book.Dorian Stuberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502464360299604387noreply@blogger.com