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"In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance and resonance from this era -- by combining their work with her own original poetry. Using "The Golden Shovel" poetic method, Grimes has written a collection of poetry that is as gorgeous as it is ...
3 de ene. de 2017 · In “One Last Word” poet Nikki Grimes juxtaposes poetry from the Harlem Renaissance with her original poems inspired by the HR poems using a technique called “The Golden Shovel.”. Grimes explains the technique and its challenges in the collection’s introduction. Illuminating both her poems and those from the HR are striking works of art.
By Nikki Grimes. I come home, feet about to bleed from angry stomping. “Boy!” says Mom. “Quit making all that racket.” But what does she expect when, day after day, haters sling words at me like jagged stones designed to split my skin? I retreat to my room, collapse on the bed, count, “One. Two. Three…” When I get to ten, I snatch ...
4 de ago. de 2020 · In One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance, Nikki Grimes takes some of the most powerful and beautiful poems from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s and uses them as a springboard for her own verse. The result is a profoundly inspiring celebration of African American experiences, and of the human spirit […]
Continue reading. One Last Word by Nikki Grimes. Published by Bloomsbury USA on January 3rd 2017. Genres: African American, Poetry. Pages: 128. Reading Level: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8. ISBN: 9781619635548. Review Source: Pirate Tree. Publisher's Synopsis: In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem ...
The Last Word. By Nikki Grimes. Poems. By Nikki Grimes. Stomp. By Nikki Grimes. New Math. ... More About This Poem On Quiet Feet By Nikki Grimes About this Poet Nikki Grimes was born in Harlem in 1950. At the age of 13, she gave her first poetry reading, at the Countee Cullen Library, a block away from where she was born. As a ...
Nikki was born in Harlem in 1950. At the age of 13, she gave her first poetry reading, at the Countee Cullen Library, a block away from where she was born. She has won numerous awards, including the 2003 Coretta Scott King Award, given each year by the American Library Association to an African-American author and illustrator “for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions.”
