![]() ![]() ![]() His oil paintings are elegantly composed, gorgeously controlled in their use of color and specific in the details of their portraiture. Two other Kadir Nelson books have won the award since, and it’s easy to see why. Although some reviewers have faulted Shange for not including an author’s note or for focusing exclusively on the men of the era, I would argue that the book stands beautifully as it is.Įllington Was Not a Street won the 2005 Coretta Scott King Award for illustration. Short biographical notes on each of the men and a page with the full text of the poem conclude the book. The elegiac tone underscores that she is not merely paying tribute to these men as icons, but writing an ode to black masculinity and agency, and to an era when their dignity transformed our culture. ![]() She writes: I remember/ I was there/I listened in the company of men/politics as necessary as collards/music even in our dreams. Show More these men is therefore unusually intimate. ![]()
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