How I discovered poetry
By: Marilyn Nelson ; illustrations by Hadley Hooper
Contributors: Hooper, Hadley, ill
Publisher: Dial Books/Penguin Group (USA); Dial Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780803733046
Subjects: Authorship; 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.
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Table of contents: title: Blue footsies (Cleveland, Ohio, 1950); title: Church (Cleveland, Ohio, 1950); title: Called up (Cleveland, Ohio, 1951); title: Texas protection (James Connally AFB, Texas, 1951); title: Telling time (James Connally AFB, Texas, 1951); title: Bomb drill (Lackland AFB, Texas, 1952); title: Pink menace (Lackland AFB, Texas, 1952); title: A snake (Lowry AFB, Colorado, 1953); title: Your own (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1953); title: Bad name (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954); title: Sonic boom (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954); title: Career girl (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954); title: Making history (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955); title: Gold box (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955); title: Kemo sabe (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955); title: Mississippi (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955); title: Glow-in-the-dark (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1956); title: Traveling light (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1956); title: Just pick a name (On the road, 1956); title: Say it (Mather AFB, California, 1956); title: Moonlily (Mather AFB, California, 1956); title: Cloud-gathering (Mather AFB, California, 1956); title: Sputnik (Mather AFB, California 1957); title: Darkroom (Mather AFB, California, 1957); title: Nelsons (On the road, 1957); title: Fieldwork (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1957); title: Caucasian dinner (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958); title: Ghost (Kittery Point, Maine 1958); title: Attic window (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958); title: Paper dolls (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958); title: Queen of the sixth grade (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958); title: Aooga (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958); title: Beautiful hair (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958); title: Critic (Kittery Point, Maine, 1959); title: Parking lot dawn (On the road, 1959); title: A drift of girlfriends (Sacramento, California, 1959); title: Africans (Sacramento, California, 1959); title: Bitter apple (Sacramento, California, 1959); title: The history of tribal suppression (On the road, 1959); title: Sinfonia concertante (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959); title: Mischievious (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959); title: To Miss Jackson (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959); title: Let me count the ways (On the road, 1959); title: A quartet of geeks (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959); title: Dances with doorknobs (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959); title: My friends (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959); title: The baby picture guessing game (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959); title: Safe path through quicksand (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959); title: How I discovered poetry (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959); title: Thirteen-year-old American Negro girl (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959).