I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy

by Liz Rosenberg

Book Overview

The teenage years are a time filled with sadness, madness, joy, and all the messy stuff in between. Sometimes it feels that every day brings a new struggle, a new concern, a new reason to stay in bed with the shades drawn. But between moments of despair and confusion often come times of great clarity and insight, when you might think, like the poet Rumi, "Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!" It is moments like these that have inspired the touching,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618564527
• ISBN13: 9780618564521
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Great poetry collection

This anthology is great - the selections are well-chosen, and I hope they will speak to our high school students in a powerful way.

you gotta love this one whether you laugh or cry through it!

Poems of sadness, madness and joy about says it all. There's something here for every mood. I share these with my teenage students and it makes them poetry believers. Wish there had been a book like this around when I was a gloomy young gus. Old favorites and new ones, and a killer price--- I can afford to buy two at a time!

great collection

What a great book whether you are full of madness sadness OR joy! Some of my favorite poets are here but I love the ones that are new to me, too.