Our poetry editor recommends collections that ... its title inevitably calls to mind Langston Hughes’s proud but ambivalent line “I, too, am America.” The book’s solid blocks of prose ...

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“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.