(LITERATURE AND POETRY) HUGHES LANGSTON Seven Typed Letters

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HUGHES, LANGSTON. Seven Typed Letters Signed and one Typed Poem Signed ("The Backlash Blues") to scholar Dorothy Porter with four carbon copies of her replies to Hughes. Uniform 4to's. should be seen. New York, 1948-1949

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A collection of letters with excellent content concerning black poets, their poetry and a proposed Poetry Festival. Hughes and Porter were old friends. Dorothy Porter wrote the first bibliography of African-American poetry, North American Negro Poets, 1760-1944.
"The Backlash Blues" was one of the last poems written by Langston Hughes. It was submitted for publication in Halrme's Amsterdam News three weeks before his death on May 22, 1967.