Although Powell's focus is on Baker, the contrast between segregated America and welcoming France will not be lost on readers. Robinson's naif, folk-style figures look like puppets, and make some grim moments easier to endure ('Those ugly rumors incited some white folks/ to beat, murder, and burn black East St. In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Louis childhood surrounded by music to her triumphs all over Europe followed, sadly, by debt and illness. In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Baker's entire life spreads out in this tapestry of words, from a St.

Powell (Frog Brings Rain) chooses a potent metaphor for Baker's hidden anger: 'hot magma, molten lava, trapped within.' When Baker arrived in France, the country embraced both her artistry and her blackness, and 'Her deep volcanic core filled with emotion, filled with music erupted.' Robinson (Rain!) draws round faces gazing with amazement at the woman onstage whose pearl necklace flies one way and whose hips swing the other. Segregated American clubs were willing to let African-American dancer Josephine Baker (1906 1975) perform, but they wouldn't let her use the front door. In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St.

Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell