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Gather up yo' fine clothes An' sell 'em to de Jew. Jew takes yo' fine clothes, Gives you a dollar an' a half. Jew takes yo' fine clothes, Gives you a dollar an' a half. Go to de bootleg's, Git some gin to make you laugh. If I was a mule I'd Git me a waggon to haul. If I was a mule I'd Git a waggon to haul. I'm so low-down I Ain't even got a ...
Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf. Because it departed from sentimental depictions of African-American culture , the collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press, when it was published.
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. Read More.
In fact, the title Fine Clothes to the Jew, which was misunderstood and disliked by many people, was derived from the Harlemites Hughes saw pawning their own clothing; most of the pawn shops and other stores in Harlem at that time were owned by Jewish people. Lindsay Patterson, a novelist who served as Hughes’s assistant, believed that Hughes was.
a poetic concern with the manipulation of form, Fine Clothes to the Jew is based in essence on what one might acknowledge as a separate aesthetic, a different approach to poetic art.
Langston Hughes. 3.47. 36 ratings4 reviews. Hailed by Arnold Rampersad as “ [Hughes’] most brilliant book of poems,” Fine Clothes to the Jew is the stunning sophomore collection of poetry that—in conjunction with The Weary Blues—solidified Langston Hughes as a literary powerhouse.
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