{"product_id":"dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem","title":"Dream A Dress Dream A Poem","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\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.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57195029758334,"sku":"NW9781951836535","price":12.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781951836535.jpg?v=1778538354","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}