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.

A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.

A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.

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.

A series of poems on the life of Fortune, an eighteenth-century African-American slave in New England whose skeleton came to be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum; includes notes and archival photos.

A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.

Colorful images and song lyrics tell the story of the Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-girl swing band that performed across the country during World War II.

A tribute to the grace and power of prima ballerinas everywhere.

This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.

Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.