From The New York Times: A look at books of poetry by teenagers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/books/review/Roiphe-t.html?8bu&emc=bua3
An excerpt from the article:
Assimilating the concision of poetry can be a useful exercise for the excesses of the teenage mind. How do you condense a conflicting and unmanageable universe into a simple line, or make sense of the rush of feeling? With its inherent, formal claim to importance, its pleasing aphoristic effect, the sheer drama of the wide margin, poetry offers a natural language for coming-of-age, which is probably why teenagers everywhere write lots of it.
FALLING HARD: 100 Love Poems by Teenagers
By Edited by Betsy Franco
144 pp. Candlewick Press. $15.99. (Ages 14 and up)
TELL THE WORLD
Teen Poems From WritersCorps
By 116 pp. Harperteen/HarperCollins Publishers. Cloth, $16.99; paper, $8.99.(Ages 12 and up)
MORE THAN FRIENDS
Poems From Him and Her
By Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf
64 pp. Wordsong. $16.95. (Ages 11 to 14)
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