Christ in Alabama Lyrics

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The cryptic simplicity of ‘Christ in Alabama’ exhibits Hughes at his best. Profound insight is carelessly draped in the most facile diction and form, the most commonplace images. There is no decoration or pedantry […] The poem evokes the feeling that great art so often evokes: that it could not have been done any other way. It commands both accessibility and depth. Hughes is a master at clothing the complex and profound in simple garb; and perhaps it is this more than any other quality that marks him as a great poet.

–Onwuchekwa Jemie, from Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry, 1976, Columbia University Press, via Modern American Poetry

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1931
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