| Don't You Turn Back |  | Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Media: Library Binding
ISBN: 0394808460
EAN: 9780394808468
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A stirring book from a renowned poet September 14, 2004
Kara Reuter (Columbus, OH)
This book is a collection of 45 poems organized along four themes, including "My People," "Prayers and Dreams," "Out to Sea," and "I Am A Negro." The language of the poems is simple, with common words. Some poems employ dialect, while others use rhyme. Most poems are ten lines or less, with some poems only ten words long; only two poems are longer than one page. Although often addressing the subject of race, many of the poems speak to universal and stirring themes of dreams, pride, and possibility. The poems are accompanied by several full-page woodcuts done in black, white, and terra cotta; the type picks up the same color scheme. The illustrations are stylized and handcrafted, depicting everyday scenes pulled from the poems. This collection also includes an introduction by Arna Bontemps and indexes of the poems by title and by first line. Young readers will be attracted by the longer, more descriptive poems, as well as the lyrical poems. However, many of the short poems written in plain language are deceiving in their simplicity and many readers may not appreciate these poems as poetry. As a whole, the book lends itself more to the study of Hughes' work and of African-American culture than to leisure reading.
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