Here are poems teenagers will treasure, inscribe in diaries, and share with friends for years to come. "The truth isn't always beauty but the hunger for it is." - Nadine GordimerExperienced anthologist and teacher Patrice Vecchione has created a unique thematic anthology which teenagers will pore over as they seek to be true, and have to face telling lies. Drawing on poets from Margaret Atwood to Langston Hughes, from Walt Whitman to Yevgeny Yevtusenko,...
This treasure of a book is a crystal prism of poetry. Even had I not seen Ms Vecchione teach poetry and read it aloud, I would hear her voice in its introduction, feel her wonder and belief of poetry through the body of work, and join a community peopled with poems and poets described in the extended biographical notes. Truth & Lies deserves a place on your shelf, be it at a school library, public library, or home, for more...
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