Title: How I discovered 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.
Subjects: 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 poetry, Biography, Black Women authors, Autobiography
People: Marilyn Nelson (1946-)