Jacqueline Woodson On Why She Used Poetry to Share Her Childhood Stories
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This book features a collection of poems that paints vignettes from Woodson’s childhood. For her, poetry was the best way to share these biographical stories.
She explained that “memory doesn’t come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.” (LATimes.com)