Details the life of Matthew Henson, one of the first people to reach the North Pole.

Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.

"[S]trange minimalist comics with an uncanny accuracy for capturing the modest epiphanies of your everyday life."--Nate Door, Impose [online magazine, viewed 9/13/11].