Full name: Carver: A Life in Poems

Author: Marilyn Nelson Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry, History, Memoirs, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781886910539 1886910537

George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life. Similar books: Naming Our Destiny by June Jordan The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur Dear Darkness by Kevin Young Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones The new black by Evie Shockley The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson American Dreams by Sapphire Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Tom Feelings The Black Poets by Dudley Randall The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou The Wild Braid by Stanley Kunitz Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey Good Woman by Lucille Clifton Long Life by Mary Oliver I remember by Joe Brainard