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Item Nr: B 119571 Title: How I Discovered Poetry
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Nelson, Marilyn
Length: 103 Prod/Pub: Penguin Group
Copyright: 2014 Series:
Book Type: FN Biographee: Nelson, Marilyn
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement. Fictionalized memoir in verse. Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honors - 2015.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  790 - AMERICAN POETRY--AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS
  1400 - AUTHOR, BLACK (BOOKS BY)
  155 - AUTHORS
  1372 - AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  1180 - BIOGRAPHY--WOMEN
  306 - CIVIL RIGHTS
  871 - POETRY
  872 - POETS