How I Discovered Poetry

Kids, People and Places, Biography, Non-Fiction, Historical
Cover of the book How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson, Penguin Young Readers Group
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Author: Marilyn Nelson ISBN: 9781101635391
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group Publication: January 14, 2014
Imprint: Dial Books Language: English
Author: Marilyn Nelson
ISBN: 9781101635391
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication: January 14, 2014
Imprint: Dial Books
Language: English

A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets.

Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through fifty eye-opening poems. Readers are given an intimate portrait of her growing self-awareness and artistic inspiration along with a larger view of the world around her: racial tensions, the Cold War era, and the first stirrings of the feminist movement.

A first-person account of African-American history, this is a book to study, discuss, and treasure.

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A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets.

Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through fifty eye-opening poems. Readers are given an intimate portrait of her growing self-awareness and artistic inspiration along with a larger view of the world around her: racial tensions, the Cold War era, and the first stirrings of the feminist movement.

A first-person account of African-American history, this is a book to study, discuss, and treasure.

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