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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | Augusta Savage The Shape of a Sculptor's Life (Hardcover) by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2022 by Brown & Company Little Mrz 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-316-29802-5, ISBN: 0-316-29802-6 ""A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--" |
 | | Lubaya's Quiet Roar (Hardback) by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2020 by Dial Books ISBN-13: 978-0-525-55555-1, ISBN: 0-525-55555-2 "A quiet girl makes a powerful impression through her artwork in this lyrical story of introversion and peaceful protest--a stirring picture book from Newbery Honor winner Marilyn Nelson and fine artist Philemona Williamson." |
 | | I Remember Poems and Pictures of Heritage by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Janet S. Wong, Kwame Alexander, Douglas Florian, Ms Margarita Engle, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sean Qualls, Simone Shin, Insoo Kim, Michele Wood, Paula Barragan, Neil Waldman, Jeanne Rorex Bridges, Sawsan Chalabi, Rafael Lopez, R. Gregory Christie, Janine Macbeth, Charlotte Riley-Webb, Julie Downing, David Fadden, Daniel Minter, Juliet Menendez, Jorge Tetl Argueta, Marilyn Nelson, Nick Bruel, G. Neri, Jane Yolen, Joseph Bruchac, Carole Boston Weatherford Hardcover, 56 Pages, Published 2019 by Lee & Low Books ISBN-13: 978-1-62014-311-7, ISBN: 1-62014-311-9 "Starred review, Kirkus Reviews Starred review, Publishers Weekly Starred review, School Library Journal Best Books of 2019, Kirkus Reviews From the joyous to the poignant, poems by award-winning, diverse poets are paired with images by celebrated illustrators from similar backgrounds to pay homage to what is both unique and universal about growing up in the United States. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander takes us on a riotous ride throu ..." |
 | | American Ace(Reprint) by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2035 by Speak ISBN-13: 978-0-14-751767-8, ISBN: 0-14-751767-2 "Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, this novel in verse explores American history and race through the eyes of a teen 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 ring and a pa ..." |
 | | The Baobab Room by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2019 by Little Bound Books ISBN-13: 978-1-947003-72-9, ISBN: 1-947003-72-0 "Here, Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, the priest fictionalized in some of Marilyn Nelson’s poems as the hermit monk “Abba Jacob,” combines his own voice with that of his fictional self to write about how he learned to meditate from a baobab tree which was his boyhood’s “best silence teacher.” Observing the baobab and the creatures who lived in its trunk and branches taught him about beauty, friendship, generosity, vulnerability, compass ..." |
 | | The Baobab Room by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 52 Pages, Published 2019 by Little Bound Books ISBN-13: 978-1-947003-53-8, ISBN: 1-947003-53-4 "Here, Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, the priest fictionalized in some of Marilyn Nelson’s poems as the hermit monk “Abba Jacob,” combines his own voice with that of his fictional self to write about how he learned to meditate from a baobab tree which was his boyhood’s “best silence teacher.” Observing the baobab and the creatures who lived in its trunk and branches taught him about beauty, friendship, generosity, vulnerability, compass ..." |
 | | Presence A Journal of Catholic Poetry 2017 by Marilyn Nelson, Robert Cording, Adele Kenny, Jane Mead, Philip Metres, Micheal O'siadhail, Melissa Range, Cathryn Hankla, Franz Wright, C. Dale Young 200 Pages, Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0-9988095-0-2, ISBN: 0-9988095-0-0 "A collection of new poems, translations, interviews, book reviews and essays on the life's work of significant poets, whose work is informed by or engages with the Catholic faith." |
 | | The Barns of Erie County by David Nelson, Marilyn Nelson 84 Pages, Published 2017 by Xlibris Corporation ISBN-13: 978-1-5434-2375-4, ISBN: 1-5434-2375-2 "For the barn lover, this book is a feast for the eyes! Contained in these pages is a collection of the incredible diversity of barns found in the Erie County area of Pennsylvania." |
 | | The Barns of Erie County by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2017 by Xlibris ISBN-13: 978-1-5434-2373-0, ISBN: 1-5434-2373-6 "For the barn lover, this book is a feast for the eyes! Contained in these pages is a collection of the incredible diversity of barns found in the Erie County area of Pennsylvania. Many of the barns you see in these pages have fallen victim to the wind and weather found off the shores of Lake Erie and no longer exist. Owning a record of them in such a beautiful format is a valuable asset to any collection of images of American rural land ..." |
 | | Carver A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Highlights Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62979-587-4, ISBN: 1-62979-587-9 "CurveBreaker. for Mrs. W. A. Liston What broke the ice? Was it his G.P.A.? The prayer group he joined and sustained? The Agricultural Society he founded, his writing the class poem and painting the class picture? His good accent in German Club? Was it the Art Club? Was it his balancing an unspilled glass of water on a hoop to raise funds for new football uniforms? Was it his soft guitar? His impermeable arguments in debate? Was it ..." |
 | | The Barns of Erie County by David Nelson, Marilyn Nelson 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Xlibris Corporation ISBN-13: 978-1-5245-5489-7, ISBN: 1-5245-5489-8 "For the barn lover, this book is a feast for the eyes! Contained in these pages is a collection of the incredible diversity of barns found in the Erie County area of Pennsylvania." |
 | | Fortune's Bones The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson 40 Pages, Published 2016 by Highlights Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62979-588-1, ISBN: 1-62979-588-7 "Afterword. The Manumission Requiem was commissioned by the Mattatuck Museum after a threeyear process to recover Fortune's history. A team of anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, working with the museum's staff, have given us new insights into local history and slavery in Connecticut through their study of Fortune's bones and historical documents. Their work forms the basis for most of the historical notes that accompan ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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." |
 | | How I Discovered Poetry(Reprint) by Marilyn Nelson, Hadley Hooper Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Speak ISBN-13: 978-0-14-751005-1, ISBN: 0-14-751005-8 "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 of the wo ..." |
 | | American Ace. the Pilot's Wings Hold a Secret Family History by Marilyn Nelson Published 2016 by Listening Library (Audio) ISBN-13: 978-0-14-752575-8, ISBN: 0-14-752575-6 |
 | | American Ace by Marilyn Nelson 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-698-40790-9, ISBN: 0-698-40790-3 "father, Melvin M. Nelson, was a captain in the United States Air Force, a navigator , and one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first ... I don't think that would have been very dramatic: A movie about the exchange of love letters would be boring! And ..." |
 | | 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. ..." |
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