Aborigine in the Citadel
Can a "fat, old, dreadlocked blacklady poet" teach sonnets and silence to twenty-eight West Point cadets? Yes ma'am.
Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson most recent book is Carver: A Life in Poems (Front Street Books, 2001). In 2001 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut. "The Aborigine in the Citadel" first appeared in The Hudson Review.
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