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Martin rising : requiem for a King
- Title
- Martin rising : requiem for a King / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney.
- Author
- Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Publication
- New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Pinkney, J. Brian
- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
- Summary
- In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning.
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Juvenile poetry
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Poetry
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- African American civil rights workers > Biography > Juvenile poetry
- Civil rights workers > United States > Biography > Juvenile poetry
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > Juvenile poetry
- Civil rights workers
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographical poetry.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127).
- Contents
- Henny Penny prelude -- Daylight. Sparkling-eyed child -- Happy Birthday, Daddy! -- Forcing forsythia -- Valentine -- Come -- Early signs of spring -- Roar! -- Weather news, baseball blues -- Kings in Memphis -- Smothered -- Shattered -- Still standing -- Sky truth -- Bravura bird -- Darkness -- Foreboding -- Home away from home -- Fever -- Storm -- Heaven's railroad -- Mine eyes have seen -- Sleep -- Day breaks -- Pillow fight! -- Soul fixin's -- Quick-strange! -- Powerless (time-out of time) -- Compass -- Pronouncement -- Chaos -- Baby James -- Unsolved history -- Desperate questions -- Lamentation -- Quiet storm -- Daddy -- Pilgrimage -- Dawn. Good Friday -- Easter Sunday -- Rejoice the legacy -- Author's reflections -- Artist's reflections -- Now is the time -- Time line -- 1968 time line for Martin Rising -- Sources -- Acknowledgments.
- Call Number
- Sc F 18-155
- ISBN
- 9780545702539
- 0545702534
- LCCN
- 2016031408
- OCLC
- 956434978
- Author
- Pinkney, Andrea Davis, author.
- Title
- Martin rising : requiem for a King / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney.
- Publisher
- New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127).
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader Level 4.8.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Pinkney, J. Brian, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 18-155