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A fresh design and appealing new cover enliven this award-winning collection in the acclaimed Poetry for Young People series. Showcasing the extraordinary Langston Hughes, it's edited by two leading poetry experts and features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews that adds rich dimension to the words. Hughes's magnificent, powerful words still resonate today, and the anthologized poems in this splendid volume include his best-loved works: The Negro Speaks of Rivers; My People; Words Like Freedom; Harlem; and I, Too--his sharp, pointed response to Walt Whitman's I Hear America Singing.
