How I discovered poetry

Description:

Poet Marilyn Nelson presents fifty eye-opening, intimate poems that tell the story of her development as an artist and young woman during the 1950s, one of America's most turbulent decades. This book is a powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir told through poems from Marilyn Nelson, one of America's most celebrated poets.

subjects: Authorship,  Poetry,  JUVENILE NONFICTION,  Juvenile poetry,  Poetics,  Intellectual life,  Civil rights,  American Authors,  African Americans,  Literary,  Civil rights movements,  American poetry,  Biography & Autobiography,  Autobiographical poetry,  History,  Children's poetry,  Biography,  Black Women authors,  Autobiography

People: Marilyn Nelson (1946-)