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Genre/Form: | Young adult literature pattern poetry Pattern poetry Poetry Young adult nonfiction Biographical poetry Instructional and educational works Poésie biographique Caligrammes Matériel d'éducation et de formation Poésie |
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Named Person: | Augusta Savage; Augusta Savage; Augusta Savage |
Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marilyn Nelson; Tammi Lawson |
ISBN: | 9780316298025 0316298026 |
OCLC Number: | 1264177382 |
Description: | 114 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1892-1930. Leap-year baby ; First duckling ; Fifth duckling ; Birth order ; The figure of a frog ; Wildfire ; Fingers remember ; No clay ; Strut, Miss Savage ; Making ; Hot dog ; Halo ; Forgive me, baby ; The Du Bois commission ; Harlem, Africa ; Marcus Garvey sits for a bust ; Negress denied entry ; Hitting bottom ; Gallery opening ; The Rome fellowship ; Gamin -- 1931-1940. Parlaying le français ; Studio ; Bust of Aleksandr Pushkin ; Hot pursuit ; Leonore ; Boy with rabbit ; Harlem community art center ; The harp ; Opening of the Salon of Contemporary Negro Arts ; Ralization ; Bust of James Weldon Johnson ; Head of John Henry ; Up down up ; After the glory ; Salon -- 1941-1962. The pugilist ; The return of the genius author ; Head of Minerva ; No forwarding address ; Bust of Steven "Barry" Baran ; Chicken-foot soup ; Girl with braids ; Final commission ; Juneteenth barbecue ; I don't know ; Crows ; Bird feeder ; Awake ; A gift to be ; Bas relief of a female dancer -- Afterword. |
Responsibility: | Marilyn Nelson ; afterword by Tammi Lawson. |
Abstract:
A powerful biography in poems? about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Art & Artifacts Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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- Savage, Augusta, -- 1892-1962 -- Poetry.
- Sculptors -- United States -- Poetry.
- African American sculptors -- Poetry.
- African American women artists -- Poetry.
- Harlem Renaissance.
- Biographical poetry.
- Sculpteurs -- États-Unis -- Poésie.
- Sculpteurs noirs américains -- Poésie.
- Femmes artistes noires américaines -- Poésie.
- YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American & Black.
- YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Poetry.
- YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women.
- Savage, Augusta, -- 1892-1962.
- African American sculptors.
- Sculptors.
- United States.