It ignited a slow burn that has now become a bushfire. In 2009, her 1950s recordings resurfaced on an independently produced album called How Sad, How Lovely. She made these recordings in her kitchen in the 1950s, but she never found an audience for her music, and then one day she drove away and was never heard from again.”
The room disappeared.Įventually, I sought out the host of the party, and asked what we were listening to. The traditional elements were so finely stitched together, with such a sophisticated sensibility, that the whole sounded absolutely original – modern, even. It had the openhearted, melodic feel of an old Carter Family recording, but there was also some gentle guitar fingerpicking that reminded me of Elizabeth Cotten, and harmonic movement that seemed to echo the songs of Hoagy Carmichael. A woman was singing in a plaintive tone about “a place they call Lonesome”. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.In 2010, I was at a friend’s party when a song came up on the house speakers – one that sounded both entirely new to me and as familiar as my own skin. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. Covers show some wear and some spotting in a very good dust jacket.
Upon the death of her husband, Joel Spingarn, in 1939, Amy Spingarn was elected to finish out his term on the NAACP Board of Directors. Most sincerely, Langston New York 1957." The recipient, Amy Einstein Spingarn was a philanthropist, poet, and artist known especially for her paintings of prominent African-American cultural figures.
Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed especially for Amy Spingarn, another "life" of mine, for a friend who has helped to make life of ever joyous and cultural interest. First edition of Hughes' classic autobiography.
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