Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelsonis an American poet, translator and children's book author. She is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. From 1978 to 1994 she wrote books as Marilyn Nelson Waniek...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 April 1946
CountryUnited States of America
alone along developing form
Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.
align decision global ourselves strategic
a strategic decision to align ourselves with the global traveler.
alienation fitting people quite
Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.
barely begun citizens outside spend stay tap twice vacation visitors
These visitors (from outside the country) stay twice as long (at vacation destinations) and spend twice as much as our own citizens and we've barely begun to tap the potential,