Marilyn Nelson - Carver, A Life in Poems

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One of the very few black Americans accorded great respect before the 1960s was botanist and educator George Washington Carver (1864?-1943). 
 
In a fine biography in poems, Nelson beautifully and movingly revives his reputation, made to seem paltry compared with that of such resuscitated firebrands as Garvey, Robeson, and DuBois.  
 
She traces Carver from his recovery after being kidnapped in infancy to his death while the famous Tuskegee airmen fill the campus on which he had worked since 1896 with the droning of aircraft.  
The life in between is characterized by hard work, intellectual curiosity, personal humility, devotion to the betterment of black Americans, enormous self-possession, and practical Christian piety.  
 
Nelson stints none of those characteristics in depicting Carver as good but not self-righteous, dedicated but not monomaniacal, invaluable but not self-important.  
She also renders Carver's context nontendentiously, in some poems conjuring racism at its worst and in others showing that particular whites helped Carver throughout his life.  
 
Historic photos illustrate Nelson's work with modest beauty.  
 
Scholastic Inc. (2002), 104 blz. 
Gebonden (gekartonneerd), afm. 16 x 24 cm. 
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