How I discovered poetry

By Marilyn Nelson

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