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Carver, a life in poems / Marilyn Nelson.

Summary:

A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780439443395
  • ISBN: 0439443393
  • ISBN: 9780439456739
  • ISBN: 0439456738
  • Physical Description: 103 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Scholastic, 2002, ©2001.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Arachis Hypogaea -- Baby Carver -- Bedside reading -- Cafeteria food -- Called -- Cercospora -- Charmed life -- Chemistry 101 -- Chicken talk -- Clay -- Coincidence -- Curve-breaker -- Dawn walk -- Dimensions of the Milky Way -- drifter -- Driving Dr. Carver -- Egyptian blue -- Eureka -- Four a.m. in the woods -- Friends in the Klan -- From an Alabama Farmer -- "God's little workshop" -- Goliath -- Green-thumb boy -- House ways and means -- How a dream dies -- Joy of sewing -- Lace-maker -- Last rose of summer -- Last talk with Jim Hardwick -- Letter to Mrs. Hardwick -- Lovingly sons -- Mineralogy -- Moton field -- My beloved friend -- My dear spiritual boy -- My people -- Nervous system of the beetle -- New Rooster -- 1905 -- Odalisque -- Old settlers' reunion -- Out of "Slave's ransom" -- Out of the fire -- Patriarch's blessing Penol cures -- Perceiving self -- Poultry husbandry -- Prayer of Miss Budd -- Prayer of the ivory-handled knife -- Professor Carver's Bible class -- Ruellia Noctiflora -- Ship without a rudder -- Sweet-hearts -- Veil-raisers -- Washboard wizard -- Watkins laundry and apothecary -- Wild garden -- Year of the sky-smear.
Subject: Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 > Poetry.
African American agriculturists > Poetry.
Agriculturists > Poetry.
American poetry.

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