How I discovered poetry / Nelson, Marilyn

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.

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.

Presents a memoir in poems of poet Marilyn Nelson, in which she discusses her life as a young girl from the age of four to fourteen, in which time she saw and was a part of the Civil Rights movement; witnessed the "Red Scare" and the dangers of the atom bomb; and took part in the beginnings of the feminist movement.