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Carver, a life in poems / Marilyn Nelson.

Author/creator Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAsheville, N.C. : Front Street, ©2001.
Description103 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Arachis Hypogaea -- Baby Carver -- Bedside reading -- Cafeteria food -- Called -- Cercospora -- Charmed life -- Chemistry 101 -- Chicken talk -- Clay -- Coincidence -- Curve-breaker -- Dawn walk -- Dimensions of the Milky Way -- drifter -- Driving Dr. Carver -- Egyptian blue -- Eureka -- Four a.m. in the woods -- Friends in the Klan -- From an Alabama Farmer -- "God's little workshop" -- Goliath -- Green-thumb boy -- House ways and means -- How a dream dies -- Joy of sewing -- Lace-maker -- Last rose of summer -- Last talk with Jim Hardwick -- Letter to Mrs. Hardwick -- Lovingly sons -- Mineralogy -- Moton field -- My beloved friend -- My dear spiritual boy -- My people -- Nervous system of the beetle -- New Rooster -- 1905 -- Odalisque -- Old settlers' reunion -- Out of "Slave's ransom" -- Out of the fire -- Patriarch's blessing Penol cures -- Perceiving self -- Poultry husbandry -- Prayer of Miss Budd -- Prayer of the ivory-handled knife -- Professor Carver's Bible class -- Ruellia Noctiflora -- Ship without a rudder -- Sweet-hearts -- Veil-raisers -- Washboard wizard -- Watkins laundry and apothecary -- Wild garden -- Year of the sky-smear.
Local noteTRC copies 30372015094649 and 30372015094656 paid for by the Picturing America Grant, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
Awards noteNewbery Honor, 2002.
Awards noteCoretta Scott King Honor, 2002.
LCCN 00063624
ISBN1886910537 (alk. paper)

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