The phrase “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t appear in the two-decade-old text, but the ending reverberates with its sentiment long after the final word is read.įrom the November/December 2018 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Although Woodson was inspired by Romeo and Juliet, the tragic conclusion here arrives not with suicides but with a police shooting. Readers Marie and Lockard’s alternating narrations live up to Woodson’s deft characterizations, and their sensitive evocation of young love will send listeners’ hearts aflutter. That connection persists and deepens despite others’ objections and the racism they encounter. He’s black, she’s white, and when they meet at school they feel an immediate connection. Stanza 1 If you come as softly As the wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. These quatrains have a conventional ABCB rhyme scheme. The twentieth anniversary audiobook of Woodson’s novel opens with her heartfelt introduction about the persistent relevance of this tragic story about an interracial teen couple, Jeremiah (Miah) and Ellie. Audre Lorde’s poem If You Come Softly has five stanzas and is composed of quatrains, which are clusters of four lines. By Jacqueline Woodson read by Jorjeana Marie, Guy Lockard, and Jacqueline Woodson
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