In the multilayered “Kemo Sabe,” she remembers watching “The Lone Ranger,” admiring Tonto and pondering where she would be if her mother had married a Native American boy she knew as a girl: “A me with another name? An Indian me?/ Could I be someone else, but think my thoughts?/ How different could I be, and still be me?/ The music throbs. As the poems chart her development and appreciation of language, they also record the country’s progress, stumblings and myths. Shifting between the playful to the serious, Nelson has fun with a Bible story she misconstrued at age 4 (“Why did Lot have to take his wife and flea/ from the bad city, like that angel said?”), and often alludes to the emerging civil rights movement she’s hearing about. Nelson’s father was one of the first African American officers in the Air Force, and, starting in 1950, when the book opens, he and his wife and two daughters zigzagged across the United States from one base to another. Each poem bears not only a title but also its geographical setting and year. The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider. Instead, Nelson’s rich rhythms, pointed recollections and sly humor carry young readers confidently along as the girl narrating these poems grows from 4 to 14. None of the 50 14-line poems here follows a particular rhyme scheme. Ages 12 up.Based on her childhood but not tied down to it, Marilyn Nelson’s buoyant new book also takes some liberties with the sonnet form. It's a series of 50 poems about growing up, traveling all over America in the 1950s to follow her father's job in. Purdy and I wandered lonely as clouds borne/ by a breeze off Mount Parnassus." An intimate perspective on a tumultuous era and an homage to the power of language. Her latest work, How I Discovered Poetry, is a memoir about her own childhood. Purdy read from her desk./ All the other kids zoned an hour ahead to 3:15,/ but Mrs. We might know iconic actress Holland Taylor for her roles in Two and a Half Men, Ryan Murphy ’s Hollywood, 1980s show. Nelson's introduction to poetry reads like falling in love: "It was like soul-kissing, the way the words/ filled my mouth as Mrs. Holland Taylor at the Literacy Partners Gala on May 1, 2023. The political and social climate of the 1950s infuses the poems through references to bomb drills at school ("Everybody's motto is Be Prepared,/ so we practice tragic catastrophes"), the Red Scare, the death of Emmett Till, and the stirrings of the civil rights movement. Complemented by muted screen print like illustrations, Nelson's 50 poems are composed of raw reflections on formative events, including her development as a reader and writer. Nelson crafts a stirring autobiography in verse, focusing on her childhood in the 1950s, when her family frequently moved between military bases.
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