...race. We wonder if this idea could bo better exprest: THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS By LAJÎOSTOX HUUHES I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human Mood in human ve'ns. My soul has grown deep like the rivera. I bathed In the Euphrates when dawns were...

...and guffaws anticipated by followers of Hughes's most famous character. The Negro Speaks of Rivers I've known rivers : I've known rivers ancient as the...blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled...

...shadow Into a thousand lights of sun, Into a thousand whirling dreams Of sun! THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled...

...his house shoes, stretched out on the floor, laughing to himself, saying anything." 12. Punishment I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than rhe flow of human Mood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates...

...known rivers'." Within 15 minutes, he wrote perhaps his most famous poem on the back of an envelope: I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled...

...Mississippi. The river in Hughes's poem becomes a metaphor for the depth of Black experience: I have known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world...blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.57 By associating Larry Rivers with these lines, Childs makes the artist part of the African-American...

...second, the increased force required to drive cracks with these steps. Chapter 4 River line patterns I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...older than the flow of human blood in human veins (Langston Hughes, The negro speaks of rivers, 1926) 4. 1 Topographical features of river line patterns...

...going over the Manhattan Bridge always brings me to Cairo, to rivers, and back to Langston Hughes: "rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins."1 The East River, the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. But this year the pictures have become...

...also sings an American song and will gain a place at the American table. THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled...

...adds greatly to the intensity of the performance, as do the reverberating words of the poem by Hughes, "I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins." Primus's use of poetry and symbolic gesture was closely related to the choreographic approach of her...