Let American Be America Again

Author: Langston Hughes

Artist: Antonio Frasconi

Publisher: George Braziller, Inc. (2004)

World-renown poet and master of prose Langston Hughes enlightened Americans nationwide when his poem “Let America Be America Again” appeared in 1936. Today, more than half a century later, this poem’s insights into American society and its dream of social justice continue to resonate powerfully among readers. In celebration of the poem’s inspiring message, artist Antonio Frasconi illustrated Hughes’s poem with thirty-two woodcuts in an extraordinary limited-edition artist’s book, adding a rich visual dimension to the poet’s verses. Henry Louis Gates Jr., noted scholar and W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, contributed a foreword.