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Woke : a young poet's call to justice
Edition
First edition
Publication Information
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2020
Physical Description
55 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary
A collection of poems by women that reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice, tackling topics from discrimination to empathy, and acceptance to speaking out.
Contents
- Activism, everywhere
- The ability to be
- In the next
- The good body
- Instructions on listening to the trees
- I've been there before
- What's in a name?
- Gift of grace
- Say the names
- In between, there is light
- Unfurling people
- What is an intersection?
- Teeth dance with silver
- Orchard of we
- Blown-out stars whisper about justice
- Amari explains a frown to her little brother
- What's in my toolbox?
- Right to
- Rock the boat
- We make a fist
- The poet's pen
- A me-shaped box
- We carry our roots
- Woke.