20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own
Verse to reach for on a lazy evening—or a difficult day: The poetry no reader's library should be without.
By Carmela Ciuraru
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
By Langston Hughes
736 pages;
Vintage
The Harlem Renaissance poet is celebrated for "A Dream Deferred" and "I, Too, Sing America," but this definitive collection also offers stunners such as the pithy "Suicide's Note."
— Carmela Ciuraru
Published 03/18/2011
