Martin Rising: Requiem for a King

"A powerful celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., set against the last few months of his life and written in verse" (School Library Journal).

Martin Rising is a stunning, poetic presentation of the final months of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life—told in a rich embroidery of visions, color, musical cadence, deep emotion, and multiple layers of meaning.

Against a backdrop of the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee, the book builds to its rousing crescendo as King delivers his "I've...