Nelson, Marilyn Average customer rating: - Form Over Content Beautiful Poem Ambitious but highly disapointing From Sisters Nineties Literary Group Book Review Editor Richie's Picks: A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL
A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards))
Marilyn Nelson
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Similar Items: Hitler Youth (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) Black Juice Day of Tears I Am the Messenger Looking For Alaska
ASIN: Book Description In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to "speak what we see." Customer Reviews: Form Over Content Beautiful Poem Ambitious but highly disapointing This ambitious poetry book is based on a little known poetic style known as a crown of sonnets, used historically to honor great kings. In this unique book, author Marilyn Nelson tries to apply it to an ordinary kid named Emmett Till whose name became household when he was brutally lynched, and outrage over his murder fueled the early flames of the black civil rights movement. | |
|
