Words With Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art.Words With Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art by Belinda Rochelle HarperCollins Children's Books, January 2001, $16.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-060-29363-2, Ages 4-8 Belinda Rochelle, author of When Jo Louis Won the Title (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers , 1996), Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights (Viking Penguin, 1997) and Jewels (Dutton, 1997) (the latter two were named Notable Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies), touches on a number of themes through the boundless African American art African American art is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community. Influenced by various cultural traditions, including those of Africa, Europe and the Americas, traditional African American art forms include the range of plastic arts, from and poetry in this collection. But it's issues of identity and history that are most powerfully evoked by themes of slavery, racism and black pride. Rochelle says she selected each poem and work of art because it inspires our own creative energy. In this wonderful reference tool for teaching children to see the larger canvas of African American art and poetic history, Rochelle touches on the fact that even those artists who knew one another didn't always agree about what it meant to be an African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. artist. Words with Wings pairs twenty poems by prolific African American poets with the artistry of acclaimed African Americans. Featuring such greats as Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton (born June 27, 1936) is an American poet, writer, and educator from New York. Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage, and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body; for instance, some of her more well , Countee Cullen Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903–January 9, 1946) was an African-American Romantic poet and an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance. Biography Countee Cullen was born with the name Countee LeRoy Porter and was abandoned by his mother at birth. , Nikki Giovanni, lacob Lawrence, Henry Osssawa Tanner, Romare Bearden and Paul Laurence Dunbar--whose "Little Brown Baby" helps young readers explore the wide range of experiences in African American life--Rochelle gives young people an enjoyable opportunity to learn from, and be inspired by a great American artists. |
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