My Seneca Village

My Seneca Village by Nelson, Marilyn. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781608981960.

Poetry illustrated in the poets own words - with brief prose descriptions of what she sees inside her work -- this exquisite collection takes readers back in time and deep into the minds eye of Marilyn Nelson. A girl ponders being free-but-not-free. Orphaned brothers get gold fever. A conjurer sees past his time and into ours. The voices of a multi-ethnic, multi-racial 19th century Manhattan neighborhood are rising again One of Americas most honored writers - a Newbery Honor medalist, Coretta Scott King Medalist and National Book Award nominee -draws upon history, and her astonishing imagination, to revive the long lost community of Seneca Village.