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The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes' groundbreaking debut, a vibrant celebration of Black life, music, and resilience at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Blending the rhythms of jazz and blues with the pulse of everyday experience, Hughes captures the joy, pain, and hope of a community in motion. From the smoky hum of a late-night piano to the restless dreams of a city that never sleeps, these poems sing with emotional depth and lyrical brilliance. This is not just a collection of verse-it's a living soundtrack of 1920s Harlem, as fresh and powerful today as when it first set the literary world alight.

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Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was one of the most influential voices of the Harlem Renaissance and a defining figure in 20th-century American literature. Known for his lyrical blending of poetry, jazz, and blues, Hughes captured the struggles and triumphs of African American life with honesty, humor, and musicality. Over his prolific career, he published poetry, fiction, plays, and essays, becoming a celebrated cultural ambassador whose work continues to inspire readers around the world. The Weary Blues, his first book, introduced the world to his singular voice and established him as a poet of the people-bold, visionary, and deeply attuned to the rhythms of everyday life.

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