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24 produkter
Augusta Savage
The Shape of a Sculptor's Life
Inbunden, 2022
199 kr
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Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, and became a teacher to an entire generation of …
American Ace
E-bok, 2016
98 kr
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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 …
Homeplace
Poems
Häftad, 1990
252 kr
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Finalist for the 1991 National Book AwardIn The Homeplace, the stories of a family become the history of a people as Marilyn Nelson Waniek sketches the lives descended from her great-great-grandmother Diverne.The poet's mother, Johnnie Mitchell Nelson, inspired this volume when she bequeathed to …
Fields of Praise
New and Selected Poems
Häftad, 1997
383 kr
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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 …
Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the driver, an amateur physicist whose ideas about space and time travel …
Faster Than Light
New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Häftad, 2012
317 kr
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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 …
Boley Rodeo
Poems, 2008–2026
Häftad, 2026
351 kr
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Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a polyphonic approach to rendering American lives of the past, present, and beyond. Voices speak from varied times and places, while the sound that results is that of a full-throated choir telling often-forgotten …
Boley Rodeo
Poems, 2008–2026
Inbunden, 2026
783 kr
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Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a polyphonic approach to rendering American lives of the past, present, and beyond. Voices speak from varied times and places, while the sound that results is that of a full-throated choir telling often-forgotten …
How I Discovered Poetry
E-bok, 2014
131 kr
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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 …
Barns of Erie County
Av Marilyn Nelson, David Nelson
E-bok, 2016
55 kr
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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 …
Barns of Erie County
Av Marilyn Nelson, David Nelson
E-bok, 2017
55 kr
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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 …
Barns of Erie County
Av Marilyn Nelson, David Nelson
E-bok, 2021
55 kr
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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 …
Carver
A Life in Poems
Inbunden, 2001
212 kr
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Newbery Honor Book National Book Award finalist Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Beautiful verse explores agricultural scientist George Washington Carver's life and many achievements, from his work as a botanist and inventor to his …
is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet
Av Marilyn Nelson, Lera Auerbach
E-bok, 2022
126 kr
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Mama's Promises
Poems
Häftad, 1985
250 kr
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Waniek is a poet of intelligence, passion, and gentleness with a fine sense of the comic and unfailing judgment about what constitutes a poetic line. She creates a rich mixture of impressions about the speaker of these poems as a woman who is at the same time in her mid-twenties and her …
Faster Than Light
New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Inbunden, 2012
714 kr
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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 …
Carver
A Life in Poems
Häftad, 2022
137 kr
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Newbery Honor Book National Book Award finalist Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Beautiful verse explores agricultural scientist George Washington Carver's life and many achievements, from his work as a botanist and inventor to his …
