The Big Sea

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<p>Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.</p><p> </p><p> Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In <i>The Big Sea</i> he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet—at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."</p><p> </p><p> Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to <i>The Big Sea</i>, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best—simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain."</p><p> </p><p> </p>