A Wreath for Emmett Till (Hardcover)

from athena.j

The genre of this book is poetry. This book is composed of fourteen sonnets, in which the legacy and issues surrounding the story of Emmett Till are explored. The history behind the lynching, the actual beating, and the injustice is all explored in this book. Emmett's murder that sparked the civi...

from lcole1

The author was nine when Emmett Till died and she will never forget how it happened. Emmett Till, was an African-American boy of fourteen and he was dragged out of his home, and lynched by white men for no apparent reason. Marilyn Nelson passionately writes this poem in sonnets in remembrance of ...

from Debra_Armbruster

Profound, haunting, and artfully composed, _A Wreath for Emmett Till_ is a must-have for school libraries, History and ELA classrooms! Nelson writes beautifully, but what puts this particular piece over the top is that she includes notes on both the stylistic elements (a heroic crown of sonnets, ...

from KMClark

Marilyn Nelson's A Wreath for Emmett Till is a striking example of the power of precise word choice that will move any reader with a heart or a conscious. Nelson, a young child at the time of Till's murdered, was empathetic, along with the rest of the nation when 14 year old Emmett Till was murde...

from jcarroll12

I am fascinated by the poetic structure used in this book, a crown of sonnets. I was familiar with Emmett Till's story through Chris Crowe's Mississippi Trial 1955, a novel on our 10th grade summer reading list. I appreciate Nelson's contribution to this unforgettable individual and account. I wo...