A Wreath For Emmett Till - Rilegato

Nelson, Marilyn

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0618397523 ISBN 13: 9780618397525

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Riassunto

A sequence of fifteen interlinked sonnets pay tribute to a young man who sparked the Civil Rights Movement in 1955 Mississippi--fourteen-year-old Emmitt Till, an African-American boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.

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“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." Book Links January 2008 Book Links, ALA

L'autore:

Marilyn Nelson is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0618397523
• ISBN 13: 9780618397525
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 48
• Disegnatore: Lardy Philippe