Make-Up to Break-Up Book of Poems for The Soul

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Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs float across the pages in these gracefully told verses. Drawing on the legacy of Joan of Arc, Anne Frank, Malala, Cleopatra, Sacajawea, and other young women who dared to believe in themselves, poet Clementine von Radics calls on a new generation of girls to trust their hearts, follow their paths, and light up their worlds.

Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people. Today my name is colorful. Yesterday my name was dead souls.

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Tomorrow my name will be lively spirits. My friends think my name is fire. The police think my name is burden. My parents think my name is symphony. Secretly I know my name is anything I want it to be. To read the words of these young people is to hear the diverse voices of teenagers everywhere.

Included are a forward by acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, an essay from Kevin Powell, another poet associated with WritersCorps, and writing tips from WritersCorps instructors. Dive in, and happy hunting. Cruelties come not just from wicked stepmothers, but also from ourselves. There are expectations, pressures, judgment, and criticism. But there are also friends, and sisters, and a whole hell of a lot of power there for the taking.

In fifty poems, Christine Heppermann confronts society head on. The poems range from contemporary retellings to first-person accounts set within the original tales, and from deadly funny to deadly serious. Complemented throughout with black-and-white photographs from up-and-coming artists, this is a stunning and sophisticated book to be treasured, shared, and paged through again and again. Established and familiar names are joined by many new young voices, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos has written the Introduction.

My Life by Lyn Hejinian. Initially written when Ms.

Hejinian was 37, it consists of thirty-seven poems, each one thirty-seven sentences long she later expanded it when she turned Sentences repeat, images wash in and out like memories do, and a life is built with more emotional impact than any traditional memoir. Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove. Her collected work came out this year and is long-listed for the National Book Award but if you want a place to start, try her Pulitzer Prize—winning collection Thomas and Beulah, a fictionalized account of her grandparents and their journey to Akron during the Great Migration.

Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer. If you want a different perspective of New York when it was cool, try Ms. Marks Poetry Project scene in the East Village, Mayer is as noisy and unrelenting as a squealing radiator.

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Bring specific flowers I will not know the names of As you already have and already will and already do As you already are with your succinctest cock. The Cloud Corporation by Tim Donnelly. This undersung Victorian-era mystic poet must have been on ayahuasca way before it was cool. His later poetry is the bridge to the unknown, to insanity, to the expanded mind.

He also uses a lot of made-up words that brighten your mind and eyes when you read them. Put aside the laudatory coffee table books of NYC. Written while he was a student at Columbia University, —30, Poet in New York is palpably full of his hungry, youthful, sexual and sometimes angry energy. He was in New York during the Great Crash of , and its effect is palpable.

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A Mojave American, Diaz speaks clearly and without self-pity about life on the reservation. Aside from the riveting images, her dark humor gives necessary perspective to an ignored America. Engine Empire by Cathy Park Hong. I look around at everyone going past and suddenly I can't breathe. It looks so easy for them, Going about and laughing,.

Scared confused mindless clone, Delving deeper into the unknown, my heart is bruised my soul crumbled The deep despair of lovers rumbled I am in a dreadful situation, too. I am in love with a guy.

It has been 4 years now, but I can't marry him, not now, not ever. His family and mine are against our marriage, but I can't stop Hard to breathe Weird to touch Acting normal Think too much I just went through the same. I was in two years of a long distance relationship and found out he dated other girls and not only one.

I once found out and talked to him about it but he called I told you I loved you. You didn't hesitate to say it back. You held me in your arms When I needed comfort. I felt so much for this one guy. I thought he was the one, but instead, he left me with a broken heart. After three weeks, I asked him why did he say in the beginning that I meant everything Menu Search Login Loving. Keep me logged in. Breaking Up Poems Email Share.

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