I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618564521)

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.

Author: Liz Rosenberg
ISBN-10: 0618564527
ISBN-13: 9780618564521
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 101654 / I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Children's Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 81
Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 32
PW Notes and Reprints 10/03/2005 pg. 73
Kirkus Review - Children 10/15/2005 pg. 1146
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2005 pg. 733
School Library Journal 12/01/2005 pg. 172
Booklist 11/15/2005 pg. 36
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2006 pg. 511 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2006 pg. 162 - Superior,Well Above Average