Philippe Tardy is an award winning illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and the Boston Globe. Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
"These poems are a powerful achievement that teens and adults will
want to discuss together." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review Only
Marilyn Nelson can take one of the most hideous events of the 20th
century and make of it something glorious: An intricate cycle of 15
sonnets--an Heroic Crown, in which the last sonnet is made up of
the previous 14. . . . It's a towering achievement, one whose power
and anger and love will make breath catch in the throat and bring
tears to the eyes. Kirkus Reviews, Starred This memorial to the
lynched teen is in the Homeric tradition of poet-as-historian. . .
. This chosen formality brings distance and reflection to readers,
but also calls attentionto the horrifically ugly events. School
Library Journal, Starred A moving elegy indeed. . . . Nelson's
penetrating elequence ensures that the lyricism marries and draws
strength from the structure rather than simply serving it, and the
dramatic directness of the address would make these poems powerful
indeed for recitation of readers' theater. The Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books Emmett Till's murder by white racists
in 1955 was so brutal that his mother let his tortured body testify
to the ugly facts in an open-casket funeral. . . .
The elegant formality of the text, with its subtle power of tone
and diction, is accentuated by Lardy's stylized, symbolically
abstracted illustrations. Horn Book [S]ophisticated poetic form.
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