Quote by: Marilyn Nelson

Since she seen Fortune head in that big pot Miss Lydia say that room make her feel ill, sick with the thought of boiling human broth. I wonder how she think it make me feel? To dust the hands what use to stroke my breast; to dust the arms what hold me when I cried; to dust where his soft lips were and his chest what curved its warm against my back at night. From the poem "Dinah's Lament" (15)


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Author Bio


  • NameMarilyn Nelson
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • AliasesMarilyn Nelson Waniek
  • BornApril 26, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Translator
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship