Marilyn Nelson
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...