![]() You mention teachers who encouraged you, two in particular: Miss Jackson and Mrs. A hydrogen bomb becomes " hide drajen bomb." Yes, for that poem I was trying to spell it the way a child would. ![]() Interior image from "How I Discovered Poetry" (Nelson) Dial, © Hadley Hooper Your poems include references to historic events-for instance, a hydrogen bomb-in a way that a child might describe them, or understand them. ![]() I address the same sort of ‘gaps’ in these poems. She told me that each of stories a gap in a child's understanding of the world around her. She published a memoir of her girlhood in the 1930s, when Denmark was occupied by the Nazis. I have a friend, Inge Pedersen, who's a poet and novelist in Denmark. In your author's note, you write that "each of the poems is built around a 'hole' in the “Speaker's” understanding." Yes. The verses, unrhymed sonnets, follow “the speaker” as her military family moves around the United States, and describe the girl’s growing self-awareness, and her awakening as a poet. The 50 poems in How I Discovered Poetry (Dial, 2014 Gr 6 Up) trace Nelson’s life from age 4 to 14, from 1950 to 1959. ![]() She sent some poems to her editor, and to a longtime mentor, whose advice launched Nelson on a journey to re-examine the decade through the lens of her childhood. Marilyn Nelson, the acclaimed author of many poetry titles and winner of prestigious awards, wanted to write book on the 1950s. Listen to Marilyn Nelson reveal the story behind How I Discovered Poetry, courtesy of. ![]()
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