How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson ; illustrations by Hadley Hooper.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 103 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- Teenagers
- 0803733046
- 9780803733046
- Poems. Selections
- Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- -- Juvenile poetry
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile poetry
- Authorship -- Juvenile poetry
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile poetry
- Poetry -- Authorship
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- History -- Juvenile poetry
- Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, 2015
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 811.54 N428 | Available | 33111008014223 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, 2015