Summary
From Sourcebooks Jabberwocky and Elise Paschen, creators of the now-classic New York Timesbestseller Poetry Speaks to Children, comes this ultimate teen inspiration anthology book of poems for middle grade readers in a dynamic book-plus-CD format.
An amazing poem books for teen girls and boys, Poetry Speaks Who I Amis filled with more than 100 remarkable poems about you, who you are, and who you are becoming. Dive in-find the poem you love, the one that makes you angry, the one that makes you laugh, the one that knocks the wind out of you, and become a part of Poetry Speaks Who I Amby adding your own inside the book.
Poetry can be life altering. It can be gritty and difficult. It can be hilarious or heart-breaking. And it's meant to be experienced, so we've included a CD on which you'll hear 44 poems, 39 of which are original recordings--you'll only find them here. You'll hear poets both classic and contemporary, well-known and refreshingly new, including: Dana Gioia expresses the hunger of a "Vampire's Serenade" Elizabeth Alexander waits for that second kiss in "Zodiac" Langston Hughes flings his arms wide in "Dream Variations" Marilyn Nelson reads to her class in "How I Discovered Poetry" Paul Muldoon's poem "Sideman," brought loudly to life by the band Rackett And 39 more poems that are immediate and vibrantFrom Lucille Clifton's "Here Yet Be Dragons" to Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" to "Tia Chucha," by Luis J. Rodriguez, Poetry Speaks Who I Amis a poetry for young people collection that is dynamic, accessible, challenging, classic, edgy, and ultimately not quiteperfect. Just like you. If you're lucky, it'll serve as a gateway to a lifetime lived with poetry. At the very least, it'll be a good time. Dive in, and happy hunting.
Contents
Eternity / Jason ShinderPerhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo
Still I rise / Maya Angelou
Cinderella's diary / Ron Koertge
Vampire's serenade / Dana Gioia
Alone / Edgar Allan Poe
Alone / Siegfried Sassoon
Caroline / Allison Joseph
"What are friends for..." / Rosellen Brown
I loved my friend / Langston Hughes
In the fifth-grade locker room / Rebecca Lauren
Bra shopping / Parneshia Jones
Blood charm / Annie Finch
Pause / Nikki Grimes
The delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday
Indian education / Sherman Alexie
One art / Elizabeth Bishop
Here / Arthur Sze
Haiku / Sonia Sanchez
Good girl / Molly Peacock
Bad boats / Laura Jensen
No images / Waring Cuney
won't you celebrate with me / Lucille Clifton
What I'm telling you / Elizabeth Alexander
How I learned to sweep / Julia Alvarez
Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare
Litany / Billy Collins
A teenage couple / Brad Leithauser
Free period / David Yezzi
Zodiac / Elizabeth Alexander
The Skokie theater / Edward Hirsch
Valentine / Wendy Cope
An angry Valentine / Myra Cohn Livingston
What great grief has made the empress mute / June Jordan
Mad girl's love song / Sylvia Plath
How we heard the name / Alan Dugan
The gladiator / Kevin Prufer
Worth / Marilyn Nelson
I am a Black / Gwendolyn Brooks
Lost sister / Cathy Song
Flash cards / Rita Dove
Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg
Dream variations / Langston Hughes
Dreams / Langston Hughes
Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney
Manners / Elizabeth Bishop
Mascara / Elizabeth Bishop
from For a girl beginning / Joy Harjo
Every day it is always there / Rainy Ortiz
Dear Mama (4) / Wanda Coleman
A boy in a bed in the dark / Brad Sachs
The talk / Sharon Olds
A small poem / Calvin Forbes
Fears of the eighth grade / Toi Derricotte
When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats
Death of a snowman / Vernon Scannell
Oatmeal / Galway Kinnell
Eating poetry / Mark Strand
The bagel / David Ignatow
Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking / Emily Dickinson
The Duke's castle / John Fuller
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sacred / Stephen Dunn
The road not taken / Robert Frost
Prowess / Samuel Menashe
What we might be, what we are / X.J. Kennedy
Sideman / Paul Muldoon
XVIII. Oh, when I was in love with you / A.E. Housman
Sometimes with one I love / Walt Whitman
In the desert / Stephen Crane
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe
The summer of black widows / Sherman Alexie
Permanently / Kenneth Koch
A dog on his master / Billy Collins
Mowing / Midge Goldberg
Seal / William Jay Smith
Seahorses / Brad Leithauser
So far / Naomi Shihab Nye
The germ / Ogden Nash
Baseball / Bill Zavatsky
Poetry slalom / Mary Jo Salter
How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson
Used book shop / X.J. Kennedy
The survivor / Marilyn Chin
New clothes / Kay Ryan
Mediation / Kim Stafford
A fable / Louise Glück
Houses / Nancy Willard
Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali
The floral apron / Marilyn Chin
Abuelito who / Sandra Cisneros
Legacies / Nikki Giovanni
Instead of her own / Molly Peacock
Tia Chucha / Luis J. Rodriguez
The adversary / Phyllis McGinley
What your mother tells you now / Mitsuye Yamada
33 / Philip Schultz
49 / Philip Schultz
What are heavy? / Christina Rossetti
The wind / Sara Teasdale
Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost
When you are old / W.B. Yeats
"Nobody can counsel and help you" / Rainer Maria Rilke
"Live a while in these books" / Rainer Maria Rilke
Here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton
Sedna / Kimiko Hahn
The writer / Richard Wilbur.
Published Reviews
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Additional Information
Subjects |
Poetry
-- Collections.
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Publisher | Naperville, Ill. :Sourcebooks Jabberwocky,2010 |
Contributors |
Paschen, Elise.
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Language |
English |
Notes |
"Hear the poets read their own work"--Cover. "Poems of discovery, inspiration, independence, and everything else"--Cover. Includes index. |
Description |
136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc. |
ISBN | 9781402210747 (hbk.) 1402210744 (hbk.) |
Other | Classic View |