In a prose work, this author described how "the tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs" and noted"We build our temples for tomorrow". One of his poems describes a time when "the stars went outand so did the moon". His poem "Hard Luck" provided the title of his collection Fine Clothes to theJew, which was published two years a
In a prose work, this author described how "the tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs" and noted"We build our temples for tomorrow". One of his poems describes a time when "the stars went outand so did the moon". His poem "Hard Luck" provided the title of his collection Fine Clothes to theJew, which was published two years after his "discovery" by Vachel (*) Lindsay. He described a manwho "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" after playing the piano in a club on Lenox Avenue in one poem,while in another, the speaker declares "I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hutnear the Congo and it lulled me to sleep". For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote"The Weary Blues" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
In a prose work, this author described how "the tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs" and noted"We build our temples for tomorrow".
Langston Hughes [or James Mercer Langston Hughes]