Black Girl You Are Atlas the nine limbo dancers sway

the nine limbo dancers sway on a sunny beach

i’d like a pony for my birthdayand a necklace for my birthday

• Stories of family

and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves

Mary Jackson

Black Girl You Are Atlas the nine limbo dancers swayA Coretta Scott King Honor Book Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award winning author and poet Rene Watson. In this semi autobiographical collection of poems, Rene Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender