Truth and Lies: An Anthology of Poems

by Patrice Vecchione

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805064796
• ISBN13: 9780805064797
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

The Joy She Gives is True

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 than these reasons. This anthology is not a "see if you like one in this pile of poems" collection. It is a careful, creative, poetry-loving collection revealing the duality of truth and lies; a subject matter which exposes the core of human connection. It allows poetry to speak for itself in a setting as comfortable as a kitchen and triumphant as the spotlighted stage. Truth & Lies is catalogued for young adults - young people who are turning over and over the puzzle of human connection. They will find more than one poem in this book to hang on a mirror or to question as they pause while making their way in the world. As a middle-aged adult, I found delightful surprises by poets I like and introductions to poets I had never heard of. And as with all literature which spans time and space, I find myself going back to the book to find remembered lines, filling myself with joy, humor, smiles of pleasure and sadness, and truth.