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  | | Faster Than Light(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-4734-4, ISBN: 0-8071-4734-6 "Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities, and The Cachoeira Tales, a long riff on Cha ..." |
 | | The Fields of Praise(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2175-7, ISBN: 0-8071-2175-4 "In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American experience and arranges them as white pebbles marking our common journey toward a “monstrous love / that wants to make the world right.”Nelson is a poet of stunning power, able to bring alive the most rarified and subtle of experiences. A slave destined to become a minister preaches sermons of heartrendin ..." |
 | | American Ace(1st Edition) by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Dial Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-3305-3, ISBN: 0-8037-3305-4 "This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father’s identity are a class ..." |
 | | Sweethearts of Rhythm(1st Edition) The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World by Marilyn Nelson, Jerry Pinkney Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2009 by Dial Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-3187-5, ISBN: 0-8037-3187-6 "In the 1940s, as the world was at war, a remarkable jazz band performed on the American home front. This all-female band, originating from a boarding school in the heart of Mississippi, found its way to the most famous ballrooms in the country, offering solace during the hard years of the war. They dared to be an interracial group despite the cruelties of Jim Crow laws, and they dared to assert their talents though they were women in a ..." |
 | | Fortune's Bones(1st Edition) The Manumission Requiem (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books) by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2004 by Front Street, Incorporated ISBN-13: 978-1-932425-12-3, ISBN: 1-932425-12-8 "There is a skeleton on display in the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. Over time, the bones became the subject of stories and speculation in Waterbury. In 1996 a group of community-based volunteers, working in collaboration with the museum staff, discovered that the bones were those of a slave named Fortune who had been owned by a local doctor. After Fortune's death, the doctor diss ..." |
 | | Carver(1st Edition) A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2001 by Front Street Imprint Of Boyds Mills Press ISBN-13: 978-1-886910-53-9, ISBN: 1-886910-53-7 "This collection of poems assembled by award-winning writer Marilyn Nelson provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver. Born in 1864 and raised by white slave owners, Carver left home in search of an education and eventually earned a master’s degree in agriculture. In 1896, he was invited by Booker T. Washington to head the agricultural d ..." |
 | | Beautiful Ballerina(1st Edition) by Marilyn Nelson, Susan Kuklin Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2009 by Scholastic Press ISBN-13: 978-0-545-08920-3, ISBN: 0-545-08920-4 "A talented team of children's book creators craft a beautiful, stirring tribute to the grace and power of prima ballerinas everywhere.Every little girl has the dream to become a prima ballerina! On today's ever-changing cultural stage, ballerinas come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and abilities. To celebrate the beauty of black ballerinas, here is a lush photographic picture book with a brilliant poetic narrative, brought to young read ..." |
 | | My Seneca Village(1st Edition) by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2015 by Namelos ISBN-13: 978-1-60898-197-7, ISBN: 1-60898-197-5 "Quiet for more than 135 years, the voices of Seneca Village are rising again. Angela Riddles ponders being free-but-not-free. The orphaned Donnelly brothers get gold fever. A conjurer sees past his era and into ours. Drawing upon history and her exquisite imagination, Newbery Honor medalist, two-time Coretta Scott King Honor medalist, and National Book Award nomineee Marilyn Nelson recreates the long lost community of Seneca Village. ..." |
 | | How I Discovered Poetry(1st Edition) (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers) by Marilyn Nelson, Hadley Hooper Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Dial Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-3304-6, ISBN: 0-8037-3304-6 " 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 o ..." |
 | | Faster Than Light(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-4733-7, ISBN: 0-8071-4733-8 "Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.Poems include the stories of historical figu ..." |
 | | The Ladder(1st Edition) by Halfdan Wedel Rasmussen, Marilyn Nelson, Pierre Pratt Hardcover, 62 Pages, Published 2006 by Candlewick ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-2282-4, ISBN: 0-7636-2282-6 "A curious ladder inadvertently becomes a pathway to the clouds in this droll, interactive translation of an enchanting Danish poem.So first it did a little dance, then it did a little prance, then, as nicely as you please, it waddled off with stiff red knees. Once there was a jaunty ladder, abandoned by a mysterious carpenter, that sprung to life and decided to take a trip through the countryside. As time passed, the gentle ladder found ..." |
 | | The Fields of Praise(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Marilyn Nelson Waniek Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2174-0, ISBN: 0-8071-2174-6 |
 | | The Meeting House(1st Edition) by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2016 by Antrim House ISBN-13: 978-1-943826-12-4, ISBN: 1-943826-12-9 "In The Meeting House, Marilyn Nelson has focused not only on the history of the First Congregational Church in Old Lyme, Connecticut, but also on slavery and bigotry in a presumably enlightened part of the Union. Her dismay is leavened by generosity of spirit, the same qualities revealed in her earlier books." |
 | | What You Wish For(1st Edition) A Book for Darfur by John Green, Book Wish Foundation, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Professor Alexander Mccall Smith, Meg Cabot, Sofia Quintero, Francisco Stork, Cornelia Caroline Funke, Nikki Giovanni, Karen Hesse, Ann M. Martin, Jeanne Duprau, Marilyn Nelson, R.L. Stine, Jane Yolen, Alisa Valdes Rodriguez, Gary Soto, Nate Powell, Cynthia Voigt, Mia Farrow Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Putnam Juvenile Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-399-25454-3, ISBN: 0-399-25454-4 "A stellar collection from Newbery medalists and bestselling authors written to benefit Darfuri refugees With contributions from some of the best talent writing for children today, "What You Wish For" is a compelling collection of affecting, inspiring, creepy, and oft-times funny short stories and poems all linked by the universal power of a wish - the abstract things we all wish for - home, family, safety and love. From the exchange of ..." |
 | | Buffalo Gordon(1st Edition) by J. P. Lewis, Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2002 by Forge Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-7010-6, ISBN: 0-8125-7010-3 "The first novel in an ambitious new series, a fictional history of the west as seen through the eyes of runaway slave Nate Gordon. He has returned to Louisiana as Sergeant Major Nate Gordon of the Tenth United States Cavalry. His job, to recruit and form the second US colored cavalry, the Ninth Negro. Three years have passed since Nate left Louisiana and his life as a slave, to join the Union Army. The war is now over, and it is clear t ..." |
 | | Euripides, 1(1st Edition) Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, the Bacchae (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Vol 1) by Donald Junkins, Daniel Mark Epstein, Palmer Bovie, Eleanor Wilner, Slavitt David R., Marilyn Nelson, Ines Azar, Professor Palmer Bovie, Professor Eleanor Wilner Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1626-4, ISBN: 0-8122-1626-1 "I committed myself to the task of translating Andromache in 1 974, and made sixteen "finished" versions in the following twenty-two years. Some speeches, especially Andromache's opening fifty-five-line elegy, went through more than thirty versions. As each failed version narrowed down the list of available experiments, or liberties with Euripides' text, I got glimpses of what it was exactly that I was listening for in my ear and lo ..." |
 | | Partial Truths(1st Edition) by Marilyn Nelson, Eric James Spencer, Kutenai Press Paperback, 20 Pages, Published 1992 by The Kutenai Press ISBN-13: 978-0-937459-09-6, ISBN: 0-937459-09-7 |
 | | Fair Warning(1st Edition) Leo Connellan and His Poetry by Sheila Murphy, Marilyn Nelson, Leo Connellan Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2011 by Printed Matter Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933606-25-5, ISBN: 1-933606-25-8 "Fair Warning:Leo Connellan and His Poetry Paperback - June 25, 2011" |
 | | Six Vietnamese Poets(1st Edition) by Nguyen Ba Chung, Kevin Bowen, Martha Collins, Carolyn Forche, Linh Green, Fred Marchant, Ngo Vinh Hai, Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by Curbstone Books ISBN-13: 978-1-880684-76-4, ISBN: 1-880684-76-4 "Six Vietnamese Poets brings together for the first time the works of six writers, three women and three men, who came of age during the American War in Vietnam. In their verse, contemporary readers discover the richness and diversity of Vietnamese life and literature from a bold range poetic styles from free verse to romantic lyric to traditional classic Vietnamese forms. This bilingual edition features poets from North and South, men a ..." |
 | | Rumors of Troy(1st Edition) Poems Inspired by the Iliad by Marilyn Nelson, Kerin Stromberg Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2001 by Pearson Custom Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-536-62283-9, ISBN: 0-536-62283-3 |
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