Mama's Promises: Poems

by Marilyn Nelson and Marilyn Waniek

"Waniek is a poet of intelligence, passion, and gentleness with a fine sense of the comic and unfailing judgment about what constitutes a poetic line. She creates a rich mixture of impressions about the speaker of these poems as a woman who is at the same time in her mid-twenties and her mid-fifties, who is black and white and red, who is both trapped by and freed by motherhood." --Miller Williams

Marilyn Nelson Waniek writes with great wisdom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080711250X
• ISBN13: 9780807112502
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 49 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 9.0"