When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems Ages 7 and up From attending college to getting

From attending college to getting married to buying a home

”—Elizabeth Acevedo

Nola might seem strange

so his dad helps brainstorm ideas for what to do at the sleepover

Consumed by grief and without access to professional help

When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems Ages 7 and up From attending college to gettingA 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