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From Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry by Julian Peters
“Juke Box Love Song” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel (New York: Knopf, 1994). Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of Harold Ober Associates. All rights reserved.
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Vicki
Such a beautiful poem and beautiful, amazing art!!! Thank you so much!
Chris
Oh so beautiful. Thank you. My soul is touched