Homeplace: Poems

by Marilyn Nelson Waniek and Marilyn Nelson

Book Overview

Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award

In The Homeplace, the stories of a family become the history of a people as Marilyn Nelson Waniek sketches the lives descended from her great-great-grandmother Diverne.

The poet's mother, Johnnie Mitchell Nelson, inspired this volume when she bequeathed to Waniek from her deathbed the tales that had shaped her life. The first section of the book presents those stories transformed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807116416
• ISBN13: 9780807116418
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.9"