I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy
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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, honest, and gripping poems found in I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy. After all, what's normal anyway? This collection includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe, W. B. Yeats, Dorothy Parker, Jane Kenyon, and many more, including teenage writers and up-and-coming poets.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0618564527
ISBN13:9780618564521
Release Date:October 2005
Publisher:Clarion Books
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"
Age Range:12 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 7 and higher
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Great poetry collection
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
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!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
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
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
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.
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