Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life
Marilyn Nelson, afterword by Tammi Lawson
This powerful biography in poems tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN-13
- 9780316298025
- Language
- English
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