From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience—and suffering—of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear.
The poems in The Panther and the Lash are the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time.
In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful—is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as "Prime," "Motto," "Dream Deferred," "Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895," "Still Here," "Birmingham Sunday." " History," "Slave," "Warning," and "Daybreak in Alabama."
- ISBN10 0394404173
- ISBN13 9780394404172
- Publish Date 1 June 1967
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 February 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Language English