The Weary Blues
A listener on Lenox Avenue watches a Black man rock back and forth over the keys under a pale gas light, and the pianist's own blues stanzas are set straight into the verse, moan for moan. Around that title piece stand cabaret poems, sea pieces, portraits of Harlem after dark and a short lyric about a dream held fast. Hughes's first collection, and the book that made blues and jazz rhythm a usable form for American poetry.
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