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A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner – A Coretta Scott King Honor Poem for Young Adults About Racism and Civil Rights
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Marilyn Nelson (Goodreads Author)

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Elle Yoon is 95% done

-- The final compiled sonnet was absolutely beautiful and haunting, but it was quite clear that the chain of creative stemmed from his name to this final sonnet, with the other individual poems written to fit inside this broader theme
-- Made it feel unnatural

— Oct 25, 2026 05:14PM Add a comment

Elle Yoon is 75% done

-- Trying to invest more time in consuming stories about America's landscape of racial injustice
-- Either too flowery to do the ideas justice, or too plain to contain nuance

— Oct 25, 2026 05:11PM Add a comment

Elle Yoon is 50% done

-- "This country we love has a Janus face: One mouth speaks with forked tongue, the other reads the Constitution. My country, 'tis of both thy nightmare history and thy grand dream, thy centuries of good and evil deeds, I sing."

— Oct 25, 2026 05:10PM Add a comment

Elle Yoon is 50% done

-- The structure of the crown of sonnets is beautiful and something I had not encountered before
-- I appreciated the changes made between the last/first lines, I felt it brought a lot of perspective through the differences
-- Some of the word choices felt stilted and clunky, perhaps due to the restrictive form of the poetic style

— Oct 25, 2026 05:08PM Add a comment

Elle Yoon is 50% done

— Oct 25, 2026 05:05PM Add a comment