New book of Hughes' poems a treasure
For those of us who cherish
Langston Hughes' works, Select
ed Poems is a treasure to be kept
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and freedom and spirit. One sec
tion is entitled "Madam To You."
Madam Alberta K. Walker is the
by one's bedside for consistent
perusal. In this work are many of
those poems which distinguish
African-American literature, cul
ture and history.
Hughes, whose writing
spanned 1926 to 1967, wrote
about blues and night life and love
Fall sky shows
As the summer passes and the
fall season begins, more stars seem to
be overhead than were there for the
summer months. The number of stars
is the same, but there are a greater
number of brighter stars to be seen for
people in the Northern Hemisphere
the fall and winter months. Another
reason the sky appears to have more
stars in the winter than in the summer
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is that there is a greater amount of
wind, rain, and other precipitation in
the fall and winter which clears the
air and makes the atmosphere more
transparent.
Overhead in the month of
September is the well known North
em Cross. The seven bright stars that
have an outline of a cross are part of
the summer constellation Cygnus,
"The Swan." This is one Of the most
abundant star fields in the sky, and
well worth going out about 9:()0 p.m.
and taking a look.
At the top of the cross is the
star named Dencb; it is the brightest
of the seven and also the greatest of
the supergiant stars known. With a
computed luminosity 60,000 times of
ihc Sun and a mass 25 times the Sun
Dcneb has a diameter of 48 million
miles. It is one of the most remote of
all the bright stars at 1,600 light years
distance.
The sun also marksthe Swan's
taiL" in the mythological outline of
voice in the poems which together
tell the story. In "Madam's Past
History," he wrote:
"I said, Don't worry 'bout
me! Just like the song, You WPA
folks take care of yourself and I'll
get along. I do cooking, Day's
work too!" Alberta K. Johnson ?
Cygnus, brilliant
'Cygnus. The name of the star is from
A1 Dhanab al Dajajah, which in
Medieval Arabic signifies "The Hen's
Madam to You.
Hughes had a fantastic sense
of humor. hi "As Befits a Man/1
he wrote about dying:
"When they let me down,
down into the clay, I* want the
women to holler: Please don't
take him away! Ow-ooo-oo-o!
Don't take daddy away!"
This book contains a selection
of poems chosen by Langston
Hughes from earlier volumes and
from the privately printed limited
edition Dear Lovely Death. If you
are not familiar with Hughes'
writing, this is an opportunity to
do so, another chance to learn
more about our culture, ourselves.
Northern Cross
Between the star that marks the
intersection of the two arms of the
Northern Cross and Albireo lies the
STARWATCH
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The second brightest of the
seven is located at the foot of the
cross and is named Albireo. The orig
inal Arabian name was A1 Minhar al
Dajajah, or "The Hen's Beak."
Albireo is one of the most
beautiful double stars in the sky, con
sidered by many observers to be the
finest in the heavens for the small
telescope. Even a pair of good binoc
ulars, if steadily held, will split the
pair. Albireo is noted for its superb
color contrast, the brighter star is
golden yellow and the companion is
sapphire. For the average amateur
telescope there is probably no pair so
attractive. No more than 30 power is
required on a good 6-inch telescope to
show this superb pair as two contrast
ing jewels suspended against a back
fffotffld-of wonderfully thick glittering ?
star-dust unequalled in splendor in the
entire heavens.
great Cygnus Star Cloud, a superb^
region for study with a small tele
scope or binoculars. Its low-power
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area with a low-power wide-angle
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of stars, groups, and clusters, and the
occasional dark gaps caused by
clouds of non- luminous material.
It is in Cygnus that the belt of ~
dark dust clouds known as the "Great
Rift" begins. It runs from Cygnus to
Centaurus and apparently divides the
Milky Way into two parallel streams.
The obscuring clouds of the Great
Rift lie at an average distance of 4 or
5 thousand light years, and in the
Sagittarius region, they prevent any
direct observation of the nuclear
regions of our Galaxy. The star clouds
of Cygnus, however, evidently mark
out a portion of one of the spiral arms- -
of our Galaxy, lying some 7, (XX) light
years away.
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