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Also by Marilyn Nelson:

How I Discovered Poetry, January 2014
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HOW I DISCOVERED POETRY
By: Marilyn Nelson

Dial Press
January 2014
On Sale: January 14, 2014
112 pages
ISBN: 0803733046
EAN: 9780803733046
Kindle: B00DMCPHXI
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Poetry

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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All Things Considered - February 9, 2014