I Live in Music
by Ntozake Shange
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Shange's lyrical poem is a tribute to the language of music and the magical, often mystical, rhythms that connect people. Music defines who we are as individuals, the places where we live, and how we exist within our communities. Music is life.Written in a syncopated style that has its own melody, the poem is perfectly married to twenty-one extraordinary and diverse works from Romare Bearden who once said, "I paint in the tradition of the blues."Here is a unique and visionary book that show more speaks, indeed sings, to both children and adults and is, at once, compelling, profond, and entertaining. show lessTags
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This picture book brings together works from two famous artists; a poem about music by renowned black feminist poet and playwright, Ntozake Shange, with illustrations taken from collected paintings by the well-known painter Romare Bearden.
The poem is well-paced and satisfying to read aloud, and the illustrations are bold enough to make a great show-and-read book for early elementary classes.
The poem is well-paced and satisfying to read aloud, and the illustrations are bold enough to make a great show-and-read book for early elementary classes.
A great book about music and how it affects your moods and emotions
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Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Linda Williams in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1970 and a master's degree in American studies from the University of Southern California in 1973. She adopted her African name while in graduate school. She wrote 15 plays, 19 collections of poetry, show more six novels, five children's books, and three essay collections. Her choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, opened on Broadway in 1976 and received an Obie Award. She also received an Obie in 1981 for her adaptation of Bertold Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. Her trilogy, Three Pieces, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry in 1981. She died on October 27, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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