Seven moments of love : an un-sonnet sequence in blues : typescript, 1939

Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library

1939

1 volume (8 leaves)

Typescript of a series of seven poems by Langston Hughes, the African American poet and playwright. The title page is inscribed by Hughes to Earl Jones and dated 1939. Robert Earl Jones was an American actor and prizefighter and a figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career.

Mss Collection -- BV Hughes, Langston

American poetry--African American authors
African American poets

poems

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