A review by aconcisehistory
Big Sea by Langston Hughes

5.0

beautifully, addictively written. he doesn't shy away from telling you all the ways that he has been a coward, an asshole, and a (diasporic) failure - so that's something. i think i was most surprised to find that he only started writing poetry because his all white grade school class had to elect a 'class poet' so they chose langston because they thought negroes have rhythm.