Dial Books, 2014. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, 8-1/2 inches tall, 103 pages + credits, illustrated w/ drawings and photos, with dust jacket. This copy in very good condition. Clean, crisp, unmarked text. No underlining or marginal notes. Firm binding--no loose or torn pages. Book looks only lightly used, not worn at all. Autographed with inscription on title page: "To MaKenna--Keep on the literary road! Marilyn Nelson 6/16/14." She is a prize-winning poet, one of America's best.

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Title: How I Discovered Poetry (Signed first edition)
Publisher: Dial Books (Penguin)
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0803733046
ISBN 13: 9780803733046
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Hooper, Hadley
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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. 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.

About the Author

Marilyn Nelson is a three-time National Book Award Finalist, has won a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor and several Coretta Scott King Honors, and has received several prestigious poetry awards, including the Poets' Prize and the Robert Frost Medal "for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." She has recently been a judge of poetry applicants at the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo, and has received three honorary doctorates.

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