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M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a poignant nonlinear narrative, illustrates the power of a pivotal moment in a life.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Dec 17th, 2005
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.26in - 6.08in - 0.41in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780393327649
- Categories: • American - African American & Black
About the Author
Jordan, A. Van: - A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections of poetry. He has been a finalist for the Rilke Prize and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Lannan Literary Award. He is the humanities and sciences chair of English literature at Stanford University and lives in Oakland, California.
Praise for this book
"Jordan combines the tragic poignancy of the blues with the cinematic sweep of a documentary in his deeply human and highly imaginative second book."