Dream Keeper and Other Poems

Powerful, exuberant, joyful, reverent-The Dream Keeper and Other Poems celebrates hopes, dreams, aspirations, life, and love. Originally published in 1932, this important collection by the great African-American writer Langston Hughes contains some of the finest twentieth-century poetry ever written. Knopf is proud to bring back this beloved classic in a striking new paperback edition with handsome scratchboard illustrations by Brian Pinkney that capture the ageless appeal of the poems. There are also seven additional poems by Hughes that are especially appropriate for children, and an introduction by noted children's poet Lee Bennett Hopkins.Hughes, Langston is the author of 'Dream Keeper and Other Poems', published 1962 under ISBN 9780394810966 and ISBN 0394810961.