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CD/Spoken Word:

9780147525758 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, January 12, 2016), cover price $20.00

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Hardcover:

9780803733053 | Dial Books for Young Readers, January 12, 2016, cover price $17.99

Paperback:

9780553257939, titled "Focusing" | Bantam Books, May 1, 1981, cover price $4.50 | also contains Focusing

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Hardcover:

9781608981960 | Namelos Llc, November 1, 2015, cover price $21.95

Paperback:

9781608981977 | Namelos Llc, November 1, 2015, cover price $12.95

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Hardcover:

9780807147337 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 12, 2012, cover price $55.00

Paperback:

9780807147344 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 12, 2012, cover price $19.95

Presents a collection of poems written to honor the life of Fortune, a slave in eighteenth-century Connecticut whose body was donated to science upon his death.

Hardcover:

9789990083682 | Chronicle Books Llc, October 14, 2004, cover price $0.02

Miscellaneous:

9781608980895 | Namelos Llc, October 1, 2010, cover price $9.95

School and Library:

9781932425123 | 1 edition (Front Street Inc, October 14, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems written to honor the life of Fortune, a slave in eighteenth-century Connecticut whose body was donated to science upon his death.

Miscellaneous:

9781608980680 | Namelos Llc, September 9, 2009, cover price $9.95

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By Susan Kuklin (photographer) and Marilyn Nelson

School and Library:

9780545089203 | Scholastic, September 1, 2009, cover price $17.99

Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a while woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.
By Philippe Lardy (illustrator) and Marilyn Nelson

Paperback:

9780547076362 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, January 12, 2009), cover price $7.99

Miscellaneous:

9780547529479 | Houghton Mifflin, January 12, 2009, cover price $7.99

School and Library:

9780618397525 | Houghton Mifflin, April 4, 2005, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a while woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.

Prebinding:

9781439597972 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.99

School and Library:

9780545020763 | Scholastic Pr, September 1, 2008, cover price $16.99

Product Description: Leo Connellan was a man of contradictions and single-minded passions. He rose at four every day to write poems, hitch-hiked across the USA and fiercely embraced his working-class Irish roots. This volume is a celebration and contemplation of his life and work.
By Marilyn Nelson (editor)

Paperback:

9780939883103 | Bibliopola Pr, November 15, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Leo Connellan was a man of contradictions and single-minded passions.

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A jolly ladder, left behind by a strange carpenter, takes on a life of its own and embarks on a grand journey through the countryside where it encounters people and animals, who, after climbing it to the top and disappearing into the sky, return in a special way!
By Marilyn Nelson (trans), Pierre Pratt (illustrator) and Halfdan Rasmussen

School and Library:

9780763622824 | Candlewick Pr, June 13, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A ladder, long forgotten on a lonely lane, sets out to see the world, but finds that people and animals keep using it to climb into the sky and disappear.

Paperback:

9780932440365 | Oberlin College Pr, December 31, 2005, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the driver, an amateur physicist whose ideas about space and time travel spark the poet's musings on chutzpah and artistic ambition...read more

Hardcover:

9780807130636 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective.

Paperback:

9780807130643 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $16.95

Hardcover:

9781880684856 | Limited edition (Curbstone Pr, December 1, 2001), cover price $25.00

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A collection of forty-four poems--told from the point of view of Carver and the people who knew him--provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor, George Washington Carver.

School and Library:

9781886910539 | Front Street Inc, April 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of forty-four poems--told from the point of view of Carver and the people who knew him--provides an account of the life of African American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.

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A collection of poems reflects on such topics as love, the African American experience, freedom, religion, war, and death

Paperback:

9780807121757 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems reflects on such topics as love, the African American experience, freedom, religion, war, and death

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A collection of poems reflects on such topics as love, the African American experience, freedom, religion, war, and death (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780807121740 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems reflects on such topics as love, the African American experience, freedom, religion, war, and death

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A collection of new poems which deal with spiritual and physical love

Hardcover:

9780807119211 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A collection of new poems which deal with spiritual and physical love

Paperback:

9780807119228 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of new poems which deal with spiritual and physical love

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Poems explore themes such as birth, death, motherhood, marriage, childhood, love, and memory

Hardcover:

9780807112496 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Poems explore themes such as birth, death, motherhood, marriage, childhood, love, and memory

Paperback:

9780807112502 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Poems explore themes such as birth, death, motherhood, marriage, childhood, love, and memory

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Hardcover:

9780807104637 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 1978, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780807104644 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 1978, cover price $15.95

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