num_pages: 112
description: Poetry illustrated in the poet's own words - with brief prose descriptions of what she sees inside her work -- this exquisite collection takes readers back in time and deep into the mind's eye of Marilyn Nelson. A girl ponders being free-but-not-free. Orphaned brothers get gold fever. A conjurer sees past his time and into ours. The voices of a multi-ethnic multi-racial 19th century Manhattan neighborhood are rising again One of America's most honored writers - a Newbery Honor medalist Coretta Scott King Medalist and National Book Award nominee -draws upon history and her astonishing imagination to revive the long lost community of Seneca Village.
language: English
title: My Seneca Village
publisher: namelos