Weary Blues

<i>The Weary Blues</i> is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication it remains a critically acclaimed literary work and still evokes a fresh contemporary feeling and offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From the title poem The Weary Blues echoing the sounds of the blues to Dream Variation ringing with joyfulness to the Epilogue that mimics Walt Whitman in its opening line I too sing America Hughes writes clearly and colorfully and his words remain prophetic and relevant today.