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88 pp.
| Namelos
| November, 2015
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Trade
ISBN 978-1-60898-196-0
$21.95
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Paper
ISBN 978-1-60898-197-7
$12.95
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Ebook
ISBN 978-1-60898-198-4
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Seneca Village was founded in 1825 by free African Americans; by 1857 it had been razed for construction of Central Park. In forty-one poems, Nelson imagines the reflections of its inhabitants. Poems appear on right-hand pages and are prefaced by brief, scene-setting text on the left. Nelson's natural, musical lines (mostly in iambic pentameter) lend themselves to multiple readings.
Reviewer:
Nina Lindsay
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2015