My Seneca Village edition by Marilyn Nelson Children eBooks
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Quiet for more than 135 years, the voices of Seneca Village are rising again. Angela Riddles ponders being free-but-not-free. The orphaned Donnelly brothers get gold fever. A conjurer sees past his era and into ours.
Drawing upon history and her exquisite imagination, Newbery Honor medalist, two-time Coretta Scott King Honor medalist, and National Book Award nomineee Marilyn Nelson recreates the long lost community of Seneca Village. A multi-racial, multi-ethnic neighborhood in the center of Manhattan, it thrived in the middle years of the 19th century. Families prayed in its churches, children learned in its school, babies were born, and loved ones were laid to rest. Then work crews arrived to build Central Park, and Seneca Village disappeared.
Illustrated in the poet’s own words — with brief prose descriptions of what she sees inside her poems — this collection takes readers back in time and deep into the mind’s eye of one of America’s most gifted writers. Included as well is a foreword that outlines the history of Seneca Village and a guide to the variety of poetic forms she employs throughout this exceptional book.
My Seneca Village edition by Marilyn Nelson Children eBooks
Marilyn Nelson has done it again! My Seneca Village brings the community that was leveled to make way for Central Park back to life. I ordered this book so I could design lessons for my school's fifth graders. They are very much enjoying poems such as Land Owner, 15 cent Futures, and Conductor. These persona poems, which are deftly constructed using meter and rhyme, have captured the interest of my students and taught them what life was like for African Americans in the village. All of her poetry books that deal with African American history are superb and, in this age of endless standardized testing, have helped me to make lessons culturally relevant. Mrs. Nelson is such a gem of American Letters and we are so lucky to have her.Product details
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My Seneca Village edition by Marilyn Nelson Children eBooks Reviews
Really lovely.
Great prices
Very interesting. I would recommend this book for people who like to research family.
Reading this led me to discover something about Central Park that I was not aware of. It will forever "color" my feelings about Central Park.
It also led me to another good book "The Park and the People " a History of Central Park". Marilyn Nelson never fails to write a real "learning experience". I always look forward to her books.
Marilyn Nelson, former CT Poet Laureate and winner of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement in American poetry, has proven once again that she is able to enter another place, another era, and take us along. Seneca Village was a real place located in New York City in the 1800s. The immigrants who lived there—African American, Irish, German—were forced to move to make way for what is now Central Park. Nelson imagines their lives, dreams, successes, and setbacks. She employs a number of poetic forms in the telling of their stories. The "About the Poems" section in the back of the book is an informative look into her creative process and will interest not only those who write and study poetry, but poetry lovers in general.
As for the poems, each reader will have his or her favorites. One of mine was "Counting Blessings" about those who left Ireland during the Potato Famine in search of a new home where they could feed their children. At four lines, it's one of the shortest in the book, but it spoke to my heart as did the story behind it. "The Deaf Boy" is a testimony to music's transformative powers; it gave me chills. And "Make-Believe" rearranged something in my brain, causing me to think about racism in a new way. "Uncle Epiphany" was the perfect way to end the book. The last stanza—and in particular, the last three lines—left me with a feeling of quiet contentment. History is often less than glorious (as witnessed in many of these poems), but sometimes, sometimes, we human beings get something right at last.
In Seneca Village exist a living group of daguerreotypes (or at least that is the way I first visualized them as each character was introduced). They populate a historic and predominately African American community which existed in New York City from 1855 - 1857. Their actual geography was razed to help form Central Park. Nelson's introduction frames the setting and history in a brief but thorough explanation of her historical research, which helps to structure in time the reader's experience of this uniquely voiced set of poems. Every poem is written with an accompanying visual description to help the reader glimpse the character who thinks/speaks each poem. This glimpse is not necessary to recognize the power of the poems. They stand quite well on their own; it's just interesting to me to be led toward the image of the community's life as a whole. Very imaginative for both author and reader.
Nelson does a sensitive job of combining daily life with emotional life. She touches the issues of partial freedom and the American Dream as a misleading with a masterful hand. Her closing notes are very helpful to those who are not particularly well versed in poetry's many forms, and to those who are, she provides interesting specific information regarding her use of form.
I have been on a quest to read the works of each poet who is leading in a summer workshop I came across when shopping for something enlightening to do this summer. All the poets I have read thus far have been beautifully diverse in content and style, so I highly recommend the following slender volumes to you below
The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel by Daniel Anderson
Straits and Narrows by Sidney Wade
The Common Man by Maurice Manning
The Arrival of the Future by B H Fairchild
Marilyn Nelson has done it again! My Seneca Village brings the community that was leveled to make way for Central Park back to life. I ordered this book so I could design lessons for my school's fifth graders. They are very much enjoying poems such as Land Owner, 15 cent Futures, and Conductor. These persona poems, which are deftly constructed using meter and rhyme, have captured the interest of my students and taught them what life was like for African Americans in the village. All of her poetry books that deal with African American history are superb and, in this age of endless standardized testing, have helped me to make lessons culturally relevant. Mrs. Nelson is such a gem of American Letters and we are so lucky to have her.
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