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How I Discovered Poetry Hardcover - 2014

by Marilyn Nelson; Hadley Hooper (Illustrator)


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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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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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  • Title How I Discovered Poetry
  • Author Marilyn Nelson; Hadley Hooper (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rocky Pond Books, Qe3
  • Date 2014-01-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780803733046 / 0803733046
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6 x 0.7 in (21.59 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Authorship, American poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013005289
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

About the author

Marilyn Nelson is a three-time National Book Award Finalist, has won a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor and several Coretta Scott King Honors, and has received several prestigious poetry awards, including the Poets' Prize and the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry. She has recently been a judge of poetry applicants at the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo, and has received three honorary doctorates.
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