Dear Lovely Death

by Langston Hughes

One hundred copies of this edition were printed for private distribution only. The cover design was by Zell Ingram, with a frontispiece by Amy Spingarn, and handmade paper by Dard Hunter. Copies were autographed by the author.

20 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1931

About the author

Through poetry, prose, and drama, American writer James Langston Hughes made important contributions to the Harlem renaissance; his best-known works include Weary Blues (1926) and The Ways of White Folks (1934).

People best know this social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist James Mercer Langston Hughes, one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry, for his famous written work about the period, when "Harlem was in vogue."

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Reviews

[Gijs Limonard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hughes' poetry is a recent discovery for me; I've been missing out. Favorite from this volume:


Dear lovely Death

That taketh all things under wing—
Never to kill—
Only to change
Into some other thing
This suffering flesh,
To make it either more or less,
But not again the same—
Dear lovely Death,
Change is thy other name.

[Max Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dear lovely Death
That taketh all things under wing—
Never to kill—
Only to change
Into some other thing
This suffering flesh,
To make it either more or less,
But not again the same—
Dear lovely Death,
Change is thy other name.