5/30/2023 0 Comments Lullaby langston hughes![]() Qualls puts to use many circles and otherwise rounded shapes, all communicating a feeling of great comfort and warmth, fitting for such a tender lullaby. “My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby?” As she sings of a “necklace of stars” in the night, a “great diamond moon,” and more, Qualls grounds these ethereal spreads with the collaged lacework of the mother’s dress, this woman holding and caressing her child. Showcasing both night-time and day-time scenes, alternating from deep blues to sunnier, creamier hues, Qualls lets the mother and baby take center stage. The poem itself, the star of this book, is vividly realized via acrylic, pencil and collage by Qualls with primarily rich blues and purples. To answer the question, it ends with “perhaps he wrote this lullaby as a comfort to the lonely boy he had been.” Indeed, as explained in this closing note, his father moved to Mexico not long after Langston’s birth, and his mother often wasn’t around. The query appears in the book’s closing note, a way to wrap up the book by providing young readers with essential information about Hughes’ life. This is a question asked about poet Langston Hughes in Sean Qualls’ latest illustrated title, Lullaby (For a Black Mother). ![]() “It’s nighttime in Harlem, and beneath a blanket of stars a young man sits down and writes a poem. ![]()
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