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01936cam a2200325 a 4500 001 55D2A0882B0D11DE82774608A8D7520A 005 200904170005.0 008 050720s2006 njua d b 001 0beng 010 $a 2005020811 020 $a 9780766024687 020 $a 0766024687 035 $a (OCoLC)61131817 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d XY4 $d QBX $d JIU $d SILO 100 1 $a Shull, Jodie A. 245 1 $a Langston Hughes : $b "life makes poems" / $c Jodie A. Shull. 260 $a Berkeley Heights, NJ : $b Enslow Publishers, $c c2006. 300 $a 128 p. : $b ill. (some col.) : $c 25 cm. 440 0 $a African-American biography library 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-125) and index. 505 0 $a Discovery of a busboy poet -- A lonely boyhood -- A poet's education -- The dream city -- Vagabond poet -- A writer's living -- Not without laughter -- Across America and around the world -- The big sea -- Home to Harlem -- My world will not end. 520 $a The poetry of Langston Hughes pulses with the rhythms of jazz and blues, and the language of the streets. In describing the everyday lives of African Americans, he became the leading African-American poet of the world. Jodie A. Shull s insightful and highly readable new biography sheds light on one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance and introduces another generation to his extraordinary outpouring of poetry, short stories, novels, plays, and other work. 600 10 $a Hughes, Langston, $d 1902-1967. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Poets, American $y 20th century. $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a African American poets $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 939 $a 5689741 941 $a 2 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418054123.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202034101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=55D2A0882B0D11DE82774608A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search