Oct 01, 2008 | ISBN 9781932425574 | 6-9 years
* “It’s surprising that this essential part of American biography and history isn’t more widely known.” –Booklist, starred review
* “An astonishing, heartbreaking cycle of poems. . . . Tragic, important, breathtaking. (author’s, artist’s notes)” –Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“The poems have both the sense of natural speech and of oratory, giving rhythmic majesty to intensely detailed physical and emotional landscapes.” –School Library Journal