<I>Morning Haiku</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2010
name: label: Written by
content: Sonia Sanchez, American, born 1934
label: Published by
content: Beacon Press, American, founded 1854
notes: label: Description
content: A hardcover book (2023.30.1a) with a dust jacket (2023.30.1b), “Morning Haiku” is a haiku poetry book written by Sonia Sanchez. The haikus commemorate the lives of leading Black cultural figures including Max Roach, Maya Angelou, Odetta, Richard Long, Toni Morrison, Rosa Parks, and Shirely Chisholm, among others. The dust jacket has a background of a light blue color with several white lines running across the cover. Three black-and-white vertical photographs of Sanchez dancing are placed in the middle of the cover. Black typeface at the top reads [morning haiku] / [Sonia Sanchez]. At the bottom in black typeface is [“Sonia Sanchez is a lion in a literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.” – Maya Angelou].
label: Description
content: On the back, with the headline in blue typeface and the reviews in black typeface: [Praise for Sonia Sanchez / “Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise / so much pain with so much beauty.” / –Isabel Allende / “The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power / and yet always clean and uncluttered. / It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, / felt those emotions, and above all, / expressed them so effortlessly and so well.” / –Chinua Achebe / “Her songs of destruction and loss scrape the heart; / her praise songs thunder and revitalize. / We need these songs for our journey together / into the next century.” / –Joy Harjo / Beacon Press / Boston].
place: label: Place printed
content: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
label: Exhibition
content: Cultural Expressions
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 050
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.30.1ab
objectType: label: Type
content: hardcover books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Sonia Sanchez
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 8 13/16 × 5 11/16 × 3/4 in. (22.4 × 14.5 × 1.9 cm)