The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children is a collection of poetry composed by children who took part in writing between the Lines workshops. This accumulation of verse gives true voices of what it is to be Black. With a photo book feel, lyrics are upgraded with vivid, solid, and basic artisanship in acrylic and shaded pencils that work close by the poetry to give a dazzling visual record of Black culture in America.
Brought together through a progression of workshops called Writing between the Lines, this compilation gives readers a look at how African American kids see themselves inside the social name of "Black". To give a feeling of quality and intensity, Adedjouma utilizes "Black" in an extensive, bolded textual style that emerges on relatively every page of the book. The children's contemplations and sentiments about this social label are clear in their apparently straightforward, yet complex poetry. When they were conceived, what their leisure activities are, and what they would like to be the point at which they grow up is altogether caught in short pieces.
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This collection would be a superb teaching tool, when working with students on composing free poetry or creating voice in their written work. At the point when children are urged to celebrate their lives their delights, their persuasions, their expectations the outcomes are pure poetry. Honest, insightful, and rousing, every one of the twenty verses in this amazing accumulation echoes with the one of kind rhythms of life, as observed through the eyes of African American children. As the words are spoken, you can feel the empowerment that the kids probably experienced while composing these lines.
This is evident in the words of Andreya Renee Allen: Black is beautiful
Black is beautiful
Black is me
Black is the color
can’t you see
that
blue is nice,
And orange is neat
But they can’t compete
because
Black is beautiful
Black is me
Tall, dark, and wonderful
see!
Andreya Renee Allen
Reference
Clifton, L. (1998). The palm of my heart: Poetry by African American children . Lee & Low Books.
