A review by yabetsy
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes

5.0

This is a poetry collection that will be on a wide variety of shelves: public library, middle, junior and high school libraries. It introduces a wide variety of poets from the Harlem Renaissance to a new generation of readers and then uses their poems in a form of poem called "the Golden Shovel" that expands upon them by integrating them into a new poem. This is not only a difficult feat, but one that celebrates the original poem and gets the reader to look upon it in a whole new light. A foreword with information about the Harlem Renaissance and original artwork provide an extra frame for the works in the book.