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  • Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
     
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    How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson ; illustrations by Hadley Hooper.
    by Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
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    Dial Books/Penguin Group (USA), c2014.
    Call #:811.54 N428h
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  • Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- -- Poetry.
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  • Poets, American -- 20th century.
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  • Poets, Black -- 20th century.
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  • Authorship -- Poetry.
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  • Blacks -- Poetry.
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  • ISBN: 
    9780803733046
    Description: 
    103 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
    Contents: 
    Blue footsies (Cleveland, Ohio, 1950) - Church (Cleveland, Ohio, 1950) - Called up (Cleveland, Ohio, 1951) - Texas protection (James Connally AFB, Texas, 1951) - Telling time (James Connally AFB, Texas, 1951) - Bomb drill (Lackland AFB, Texas, 1952) - Pink menace (Lackland AFB, Texas, 1952) - A snake (Lowry AFB, Colorado, 1953) - Your own (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1953) - Bad name (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954) - Sonic boom (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954) - Career girl (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1954) - Making history (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955) - Gold box (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955) - Kemo sabe (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955) - Mississippi (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1955) - Glow-in-the-dark (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1956) - Traveling light (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas, 1956) - Just pick a name (On the road, 1956) - Say it (Mather AFB, California, 1956) - Moonlily (Mather AFB, California, 1956) - Cloud-gathering (Mather AFB, California, 1956) - Sputnik (Mather AFB, California 1957) - Darkroom (Mather AFB, California, 1957) - Nelsons (On the road, 1957) - Fieldwork (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1957) - Caucasian dinner (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) - Ghost (Kittery Point, Maine 1958) - Attic window (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) - Paper dolls (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) - Queen of the sixth grade (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) - Aooga (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) - Beautiful hair (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) - Critic (Kittery Point, Maine, 1959) - Parking lot dawn (On the road, 1959) - A drift of girlfriends (Sacramento, California, 1959) - Africans (Sacramento, California, 1959) - Bitter apple (Sacramento, California, 1959) - The history of tribal suppression (On the road, 1959) - Sinfonia concertante (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959) - Mischievious (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959) - To Miss Jackson (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959) - Let me count the ways (On the road, 1959) - A quartet of geeks (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) - Dances with doorknobs (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) - My friends (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) - The baby picture guessing game (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) - Safe path through quicksand (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) - How I discovered poetry (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) - Thirteen-year-old American Negro girl (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959).
    Summary: 
    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.
    Audience: 
    9-12 Medialog, Inc.
    Other authors: 
    Hooper, Hadley.
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