Marilyn Nelson

  • The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems

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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 a

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    • Author: Nelson, Marilyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: June 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0807130648
    • Language: English
  • Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011

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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 selec

    • Author: Nelson, Marilyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: November 12, 2012
    • ISBN10: 0807147346
    • Language: English
  • A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner

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    2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book

    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 woma

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    • Author: Nelson, Marilyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: January 12 2009
    • ISBN10: 0547076363
    • Language: English
  • Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life

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    This powerful biography in poems​ tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance.

    A Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street Coll

    • Author: Nelson, Marilyn
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: January 25, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0316298026
    • Language: English
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