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 The Meeting House |
 Faster Than Light |
 The Cachoeira Tales |
 The Thirteenth Month |
 The Fields of Praise |
 Euripides, 1 |
 Magnificat |
 The Homeplace |
 Mama's Promises |
What they’re saying
“a poet of stunning power, able to bring alive the most rarified and subtle of experiences.” —LSU Press
Using domestic settings and memories of her own childhood, Nelson fashions poetry which “sometimes sings, sometimes narrates” —Kirkland C. Jones, Dictionary of Literary Biography
“Her words teach us how to praise ourselves by praising each other.” —Yusef Komunyakaa
Nelson’s poetry “reaches back through generations hemmed in on all sides by slavery and its antecedents; all along the way she finds sweetness, and humor, and more complicated truth than its disguises have revealed.” —Suzanne Gardinier, Parnassus
“quietly lyrical” voice and poems of “simple wisdom and straightforward, indelible stories.” —Miller Williams, African American Review