How I Discovered Poetry

How I Discovered Poetry
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9781101635391
ISBN-13 : 1101635398
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Book Synopsis How I Discovered Poetry by : Marilyn Nelson

Download or read book How I Discovered Poetry written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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