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103 pp.
| Front |
May, 2001 |
TradeISBN 1-886910-53-7$$16.95
(1)
YA
A series of fifty-nine poems portrays George Washington Carver as a private, scholarly man of great personal faith and social purpose. Nelson fills in the trajectory of Carver's life with details of the cultural and political contexts that shaped him even as he shaped history. As individual works, each poem stands as a finely wrought whole of such high caliber than one can hardly name a favorite, never mind the best.
Reviewer: Cathryn M. Mercier
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2001