Poetry, politics, and friendship in the Spanish Civil War
Subtitle: Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard, and Louise Thompson
By: Anne Donlon, editor
Contributors: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, translator, correspondent, recipient; Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965, correspondent, recipient; Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1901-1999, correspondent, recipient; Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series; Mangum, Megan, book designer; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 3, number 1, Fall 2012; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 3, number 1.
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Poetry; Correspondence; History; Literature and the war; African American Participation
Description: "This volume collects Langston Hughes's correspondence with Nancy Cunard and Louise Thompson during the Spanish Civil War. In addition, the final section presents unpublished and uncollected poems by Hughes, including "A Note from Spain," an unpublished poem from the series of epistolary "Johnny" poems, and "Mother and Child," an undated poem by Hughes that narrates an aerial bombing."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-53).
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Correspondence: Langston Hughes & Nancy Cunard --; title: Correspondence: Langston Hughes & Louise Thompson ; -- Poetry:; title: A note from Spain  -- Langston Hughes; title: Spanish folk songs of the war  -- [author unknown] (translated by Langston Hughes); title: Mother and child  -- Langston Hughes ;; title: Bibliography --; title: Biographical notes.