How I discovered poetry

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-ope...

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Main Author: Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- (Author)
Other Authors: Hooper, Hadley (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Speak, 2016.
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