San Antonio College Library

"Here is the key to the house. In the house burns a light. In that light rests a bed. On that bed waits a book... Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing - a key, a bed, a book, a light, the moon - this timeless good night book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe." --

We are color struck. The way an artist strikes. His canvas with his brush of many hues. Look closely at these mirrors these palettes of skin. Each color is rich, in its own right. Black is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In this lyrical and luminous collection, Coretta Scott King honorees Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrate these...