The Homeplace: Poems - Hardcover
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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Marilyn Nelson Waniek is a teller of family tales whose black roots in the South quickly embrace us all. Maybe best, Waniek has the full range of a blues singer's passion, from bitterness to joy, and she shows why in the right hands poetry's cry of the heart is still strong and still fresh.
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- PublisherLouisiana State Univ Pr
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0807116408
- ISBN 13 9780807116401
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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The Homeplace : Poems
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(1990)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fran Funk (Author photo); Laura Roubique Gleason (illustrator). 1st Edition. Third printing of the first edition. Signed by Marilyn Nelson directly on the title-page, additionally inscribed to Aralia Press publisher, Michael Peich and his wife: "For Mike and Dianne Peich, / for the fellowship of / shared love of poetry. / Marilyn / 6/96"; Nelson's third volume of poetry. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 023197
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