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Langston Hughes’s “Juke Box Love Song”
Langston Hughes’s “Juke Box Love Song”
A Visual Interpretation
Julian Peters
February 1, 2021

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Juke Box Love Song by Langston Huges, illustrated by Julian Peters
illustration of buses and subways in Harlem
illustration of brownstones in Harlem
a couple dancing to the music of a Harlem band

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“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.

Julian Peters

Julian Peters is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Montreal, Canada, who focuses on adapting classical poems into graphic art. His work has been exhibited internationally and published in several poetry and graphic art collections.

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