Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem av Nancy Johnson James

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<B>A poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds, written by the author of <I>Brown: The Many Shades of Love</I></B><BR/><BR/>What dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. She left her home in rural Kentucky for the city, learned to read and to write, and became a dressmaker. She hand-stitched gorgeous gowns. She worked so hard she lost her eyesight, and her world went dark. But those well-loved stitches turned into words, and one night Myra woke in the middle of the night and wrote a poem she called ';Sunshine.' She kept writing. She wrote the lush green, sweet-corn yellow, cerulean blue, sunshine-y world from memory, collecting her poems into a book called <I>Thoughts of Idle Hours</I>, published in 1915.<BR/><BR/>Written in Wilds's style, this lyrical, gorgeously illustrated picture book biography celebrates this little-known poet and includes a biography that provides context to her lifethe Great Migration, Jim Crow segregationas w