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Open your ears and your heart . . . This story reflects the joys and hardships of an African-American boy growing to manhood. The last and most explicitly political book of verse by one of the great poets of our century. Published just before his death in 1967, Hughes' sometimes bitter, sometimes ironic, but always powerful poems address the racial politics of the 1960s. The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire career.