From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:22:44 -0600

On March 10 Katy Horning observed how in "ellington was not a street" Kadir Nelson's paintings so effectively accompany the words of the Ntozake Shange's poem "Mood Indigo."
  I also appreciate the "family picture" Kadir Nelson created near the end of "ellington was not a street." Children and adults alike enjoy identifying the various movers and shakers in this painting. All the visual clues are right there waiting to be discovered in previous pages.

  Shange's insights can provoke relevant contemporary questions, and like Nelson's artwork they can be tapped according to each individual's experience and insight. The line launching the marvelous group portrait says it all: "We belonged to a whole world." "ellington was not a street" informs some and reminds others of a particular world. Some might also suggest that this splendid book also relates that world to who we are and where we find ourselves today.
  Peace, Ginny
 
 

Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Mon 14 Mar 2005 11:22:44 AM CST