{"product_id":"9781951836535-dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem","title":"Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (A Picture Book)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds, written by the author of \u003ci\u003eBrown: The Many Shades of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She left her home in rural Kentucky for the city, learned to read and to write, and became a dressmaker. She hand-stitched gorgeous gowns. She worked so hard she lost her eyesight, and her world went dark. But those well-loved stitches turned into words, and one night Myra woke in the middle of the night and wrote a poem she called “Sunshine.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She kept writing. She wrote the lush green, sweet-corn yellow, cerulean blue, sunshine-y world from memory, collecting her poems into a book called \u003ci\u003eThoughts of Idle Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1915.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This lyrical, gorgeously illustrated picture book biography celebrates this little-known poet and includes a biography that provides context to her life—the Great Migration, Jim Crow segregation—as well a photograph and a small selection of her poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41601056899169,"sku":"9781951836535","price":11.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31393653.jpg?v=1732176325","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781951836535-dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}