Honestly, despite my love of poetry, I’d be hard pressed to identify specific forms of poetry without great effort these days, aside from Haiku, as it’s been a couple decades since I took a poetry class. In the author’s note, Nelson notes that she views the narrator in the poems, who is more or less sharing memories from her (Nelson’s) life, as “she” rather than “me.” Nelson also specifies that the poems are all non-rhyming sonnets, written in iambic pentameter. “ How I Discovered Poetry, by Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist (as well as Cleveland born, like me) Marilyn Nelson,” is a poetic memoir, covering the years of 1950–196, when the author went from age 4 to 14. If you click through to purchase, I may receive a small commission.(Background image licensed by the author from Adobe Stock)Īpril is National Poetry Month, and while I read this collection back in February of this year, while making a concerted effort to expand my knowledge of Black writers and poets, now seems like a good time to share my thoughts on it. NOTE: This review includes affiliate links.
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