{"product_id":"dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem-dressmaker-and-poet-myra-viola-wilds-a-picture-book","title":"Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Diana Ejaita, Nancy Johnson James","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46336025952492,"sku":"9781951836535","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781951836535.jpg?v=1743666122","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem-dressmaker-and-poet-myra-viola-wilds-a-picture-book","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}