Carver, a life in poems
By: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Carver, George Washington, -- 1864?-1943 -- Poetry; African American agriculturists -- Poetry; Agriculturists -- Poetry; American poetry
Genres: Poetry
Description: i read this book in english my freshmen year, and you really have to know the meaning of things outside its orgin to understand this book, good luck :)
Notes: "This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover
Table of contents: title: Arachis Hypogaea; title: Baby Carver; title: Bedside reading; title: Cafeteria food; title: Called; title: Cercospora; title: Charmed life; title: Chemistry 101; title: Chicken talk; title: Clay; title: Coincidence; title: Curve-breaker; title: Dawn walk; title: Dimensions of the Milky Way; title: drifter; title: Driving Dr. Carver; title: Egyptian blue; title: Eureka; title: Four a.m. in the woods; title: Friends in the Klan; title: From an Alabama Farmer; title: "God's little workshop"; title: Goliath; title: Green-thumb boy; title: House ways and means; title: How a dream dies; title: Joy of sewing; title: Lace-maker; title: Last rose of summer; title: Last talk with Jim Hardwick; title: Letter to Mrs. Hardwick; title: Lovingly sons; title: Mineralogy; title: Moton field; title: My beloved friend; title: My dear spiritual boy; title: My people; title: Nervous system of the beetle; title: New Rooster; title: 1905; title: Odalisque; title: Old settlers' reunion; title: Out of "Slave's ransom"; title: Out of the fire; title: Patriarch's blessing Penol cures; title: Perceiving self; title: Poultry husbandry; title: Prayer of Miss Budd; title: Prayer of the ivory-handled knife; title: Professor Carver's Bible class; title: Ruellia Noctiflora; title: Ship without a rudder; title: Sweet-hearts; title: Veil-raisers; title: Washboard wizard; title: Watkins laundry and apothecary; title: Wild garden; title: Year of the sky-smear