Winning the poet his first poetry prize from the National Urban League, this poem first appeared in Opportunity Magazine. The poem unites an observing narrator and a performer
Winning the poet his first poetry prize from the National Urban League, this poem first appeared in Opportunity Magazine. The poem unites an observing narrator and a performer who works in a "dull pallor of an old gas light." The performer works on Lenox Avenue and sings a song of despair "far into the night" but is able to drain anxiety through music and escape to bed, sleeping "like a rock or man that's dead." For 10 points—name this 1923 poem about a Harlem nightclub piano player by Langston Hughes.
Winning the poet his first poetry prize from the National Urban League, this poem first appeared in Opportunity Magazine.
{The Weary Blues}