Frank Carlson Library

Brief rhymes for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by longer explanatory text, present features of Kansas.

Presents a history of the border war preceding the American Civil War that was waged over whether Kansas would join the Union as a slave state or a free state.

The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.