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Nelson, Marilyn was born on April 26, 1946 in Cleveland. Daughter of Melvin Moton and Johnnie Edwina (Mitchell) Nelson.
( George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri a...)
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.
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A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin. In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. In a profound and chilling poem, award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement.
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(A collection of poems celebrating several generations of ...)
A collection of poems celebrating several generations of a Southern Black family which includes such members as Great-Uncle Rufus who was born a blave, Aunt Geneva who loved a white man, and the author's father who was an Air Force navigator and part of the famed Tuskagee Airmen.
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(In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subject...)
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 heartrending eloquence and wisdom to a mule. An old woman scrubbing over a washtub receives a personal revelation of what Emancipation means: "So this is freedom: the peace of hours like these." Memories of the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen in the face of aerial combat abroad and virulent racism at home bring a speaker to the sudden awareness of herself as the daughter "of a thousand proud fathers."
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One of 200 signed and numbered copies printed signed by the author and artist. Octavo. Green printed wraps of Duchene Mouchetes and Banana paper endsheets. Illustrated by Eric Spencer.
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Nelson, Marilyn was born on April 26, 1946 in Cleveland. Daughter of Melvin Moton and Johnnie Edwina (Mitchell) Nelson.
Bachelor, University of California, Davis, 1968; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1979.
With, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon, 1970-1972;
visiting professor, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1971-1972;
visiting professor, Near Nissum Seminarium, Denmark, 1972-1973;
visiting professor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1973-1978;
visiting professor, Universitat Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, spring 1977;
visiting professor, U. Connecticut, Storrs, since 1978;
visiting professor, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1982-1983;
Adjunct Professor, New York University, 1986-1989, 94-95;
instructor Master of Fine Arts program, Vermont College, 1988-1989;
Fulbright teaching fellow, France, 1995. Judge Loft/McKinley Poetry Grant, Minneapolis, 1985, Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) College.Poetry Contest, 1985, Dartmouth College Poetry Contest, 1990. Judge grants Massachusetts Common for the Arts, 1989.
Member Connecticut Poet Laureate Selection Committee, 1986. Resident faculty Frost Place, Franconia, N.H., 1986. Touring artist CONTOURS Connecticut Common for the Arts, 1985-1989, Connecticut Library.
Project, 1985.
(A collection of poems celebrating several generations of ...)
(In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subject...)
( George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri a...)
(One of 200 signed and numbered copies printed signed by t...)
( A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paper...)
(Book by Waniek, Marilyn Nelson, Nelson, Marilyn)
(Book by Waniek, Marilyn Nelson, Nelson, Marilyn)
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Member American Association of University Professors, American Literary Translators Association, Associated Writing Programs, Poetry Society American, Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Society for Values in Higher Education, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Erdmann Waniek, 1970 (divorced 1979). Married Roger B. Wilkenfeld, 1979 (divorced 1998). Children: Jacob, Dora.