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Fine Clothes to the Jew

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discussed in biography

In Langston Hughes
…a second collection of poetry, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), which was criticized by some for its title and for its frankness, though Hughes himself felt that it represented another step forward in his writing.
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influence of blues

In blues: Influence
In Hughes’s second book, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), he turned to the blues for a poetic form derived from and answering to the desires, needs, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Black working class.
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