Age twelve. That is when it happened to me. And that is when it happened to my daughter Ella. So perhaps I should have known that poetry would slam her from all directions. We are not talking about the comforting couplets of Suess or the shape poems of kindergarten either. The emotional rawness of her adolescence was matched only by the naked feeling of music-wrapped words. Combine that with her...
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