How i discovered poetry6/19/2023 ![]() For fans of Nelson’s impressive body of children’s and adult poetry, including the brilliant A Wreath for Emmett Till(2005), this insight into her modulated memories gratifies that heartfelt belief that here writes a woman of great substance. Hooper’s line-and-shade illustrations, along with Nelson’s family photos, set a quiet and respectful tone and offer readers the feeling of taking an unsolicited peek behind a heavy curtain. The title poem comes near the end and is breathtaking in the perverse cruelty the young speaker experiences from an educator. Purdy and I wandered lonely as clouds borne by a breeze off Mount Parnassus. All the other kids zoned an hour ahead to 3:15, but Mrs. ![]() Rather, her autobiographically inspired collection of 50 nonrhyming sonnets is enhanced by research and imagination. How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson It was like soul-kissing, the way the words filled my mouth as Mrs. The verses, unrhymed sonnets, are written through the lens of a younger self-a young girl from a military family-and detail her emerging consciousness to the. In the author’s note of her self-ascribed “portrait of an artist as a young American Negro girl,” Nelson disclaims that the “I” in the title is she. Chronicling the decade of 1950s America, a young self-aware speaker connects national events to daily life experiences. ![]() In this fictionalized memoir in verse, renowned poet Nelson lyrically recounts her passage from ages 4 to 14, from numerous military base homes through friends, schools, and dogs and from developmental stages of initiative through industry to identity. ![]()
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