Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life Caren Beilin this is that story at

this is that story at last

In a year when all politics is--to much of the public--a tendentious and pompous bore

her brother’s icy distance

A few months into her retirement-or

with a world of possibility

Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life Caren Beilin this is that story atThis powerful biography in poems tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance. A Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street College of Education A Black Caucus ALA Children & Young Adult Award Winner A CCBC Childrens Choice A CBC Teacher Favorite Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait