An edition of How I discovered poetry
(2014)
How I discovered poetry
by Marilyn Nelson
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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.
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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 poetryPeople
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How I discovered poetry
2014, Dial Books/Penguin Group (USA), Dial Books
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Table of Contents
Blue footsies (Cleveland, Ohio, 1950)
Church (Cleveland, Ohio, 1950)
Called up (Cleveland, Ohio, 1951)
Texas protection (James Connally AFB, Texas, 1951)
Telling time (James Connally AFB, Texas, 1951)
Bomb drill (Lackland AFB, Texas, 1952)
Pink menace (Lackland AFB, Texas, 1952)
A snake (Lowry AFB, Colorado, 1953)
Your own (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1953)
Bad name (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954)
Sonic boom (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954)
Career girl (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954)
Making history (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955)
Gold box (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955)
Kemo sabe (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955)
Mississippi (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955)
Glow-in-the-dark (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1956)
Traveling light (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1956)
Just pick a name (On the road, 1956)
Say it (Mather AFB, California, 1956)
Moonlily (Mather AFB, California, 1956)
Cloud-gathering (Mather AFB, California, 1956)
Sputnik (Mather AFB, California 1957)
Darkroom (Mather AFB, California, 1957)
Nelsons (On the road, 1957)
Fieldwork (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1957)
Caucasian dinner (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958)
Ghost (Kittery Point, Maine 1958)
Attic window (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958)
Paper dolls (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958)
Queen of the sixth grade (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958)
Aooga (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958)
Beautiful hair (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958)
Critic (Kittery Point, Maine, 1959)
Parking lot dawn (On the road, 1959)
A drift of girlfriends (Sacramento, California, 1959)
Africans (Sacramento, California, 1959)
Bitter apple (Sacramento, California, 1959)
The history of tribal suppression (On the road, 1959)
Sinfonia concertante (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959)
Mischievious (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959)
To Miss Jackson (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959)
Let me count the ways (On the road, 1959)
A quartet of geeks (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959)
Dances with doorknobs (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959)
My friends (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959)
The baby picture guessing game (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959)
Safe path through quicksand (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959)
How I discovered poetry (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959)
Thirteen-year-old American Negro girl (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959).
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