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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2004
Gr 6-Up Myers's skill with characterization and voice are apparent as he models Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology (Sagebrush, 1962) to bring Harlem to life for readers. A complexity of experiences comes through vividly in the varying poetic styles, from the Deacon Macon R. Allen: "Don't give me no whispering church/Don't be mumbling nothing to my Lord/You came in crying and you going out crying/So don't be holding back the word" to 14-year-old Didi Taylor: "I'd love to live on ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2005
In an ambitious collection inspired, says the author in an introduction, by Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology, Myers constructs a portrait of his beloved Harlem through the voices of its various constituents—children, adolescents, church ladies and jazz musicians, veterans, hustlers, a hairdresser, a boxer—in a series of more than fifty first-person poems. Each poem is tit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
