How I Discovered Poetry
Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · March 8, 2016
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- Who it’s for
- Fifty poems join an intimate coming-of-age portrait to the tensions and movements of the 1950s.
- Themes
- African-American history, Artistic development, Racial tensions
- Genres
- Poetry for Teens, African American U.S. History for Teens, Lives in History
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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.
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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.
Poems Into Perspective
Fifty poems join an intimate coming-of-age portrait to the tensions and movements of the 1950s.
Come here for
- A poet’s account of artistic growth and self-awareness
- Personal memory alongside African-American history
Expect
- A first-person memoir told through poems
- Material for thoughtful study and discussion
Where it sits
| Lives in History | 84% |
|---|---|
| Poetry for Teens | 56% |
| African American U.S. History for Teens | 52% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- Writers' Lives
- African American U.S. History for Teens
- Authors
- Marilyn Nelson
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- March 8, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- African-American history · Artistic development · Racial tensions
- Reading lane
- Lives in History