{"id":4794,"date":"2019-01-14T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2019-01-14T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:43:16","slug":"a-song-for-gwendolyn-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over at Tennessee’s Chapter 16<\/em>, I’ve written about Alice Faye Duncan’s<\/a><\/strong> A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks<\/em> (Sterling, January 2019), illustrated by Brooklyn artist Xia Gordon<\/a><\/strong>. Duncan is a Memphis author and school librarian. You can head here<\/a><\/strong> to read about the book, and today here at 7-Imp is a bit of art from it. This is Gordon’s picture book debut. <\/p>\n

(Pictured above is Gordon’s portrait of Brooks from the book’s title page spread.)<\/p>\n

Enjoy! <\/p>\n


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“SING a song for Gwendolyn Brooks.
Sing it loud\u2014\u2014a Chicago blues. …”<\/em>
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“SING a song for Gwendolyn Brooks.
Her father is a janitor.
He buys the food and pays the rent.”<\/em>
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“Gwen’s South Side view is an urban suite.
Pointed church steeples pierce the clouds. …”<\/em>
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A SONG FOR GWENDOLYN BROOKS. Text \u00a9 2019 Alice Faye Duncan. Illustrations \u00a9 2019 Xia Gordon and reproduced here by permission of the publisher, Sterling Children’s Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Tennessee’s Chapter 16, I’ve written about Alice Faye Duncan’s A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks (Sterling, January 2019), illustrated by Brooklyn artist Xia Gordon. Duncan is a Memphis author and school librarian. You can head here to read about the book, and today here at 7-Imp is a bit of art from it. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}