When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems Literary Fiction daring novel—a magical love story

daring novel—a magical love story

finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter

Black writers have used writing and reading to create

With the endearing father-child dynamic of Jabari Jumps and engaging mixed-media illustrations

When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems Literary Fiction daring novel—a magical love storyA dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence. In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Awardwinner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean playsCaliban and Sycorax from? The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from? Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of? Othelloto mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black