Fine Clothes to the Jew
Sixty-odd poems in the voices of cabaret girls, elevator boys, prostitutes, gamblers and railroad men, most of them cast in the three-line blues stanza rather than in any literary form. The title comes from a line about a man carrying his good suit to the pawnbroker, and the Black press attacked the book for weeks as a betrayal of the race to white slumming. Hughes defended it as the only honest place to look for the material, and went on calling it his best book.
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