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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 4–8—The team who created We Troubled the Waters (HarperCollins, 2009) now presents a series of poems and paintings that express the hope and frustration of enslaved people trying to navigate the Underground Railroad. Using dialect to convey a Southern cadence, Shange's poems communicate powerful emotions. Fear, resolve, anger, and hope all show up at various times. The book depicts a variety of experiences, from a slave who wants to escape, to a lov...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
The poet and the painter who first paired their talents in 2009 with We Troubled the Waters return with another collection, this one centered on the experiences of slaves seeking freedom. The poems are arranged chronologically, beginning with a man in a cotton field, dreaming of freedom, and ending with three newly free African Americans in Canada posing for a photograph with white abolitionists. Along the way we see and hear several frightene...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
This collection begins with a man in a cotton field and ends with three newly free African Americans in Canada. Shange...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
