I Just Hope It's Lethal

by November, Deena

• ISBN13: 9780618564521
• ISBN10: 0618564527
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-24
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Sadness Without Reason: Moods A Sad Child

Infant Sorrow by William Blake I Hate My Moaning

Untitled poem: ""I like my anger"" by Ikkyü The Stranger

A Place for Everything by Louis Jenkins A Larger Loneliness

The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké Let No Charitable Hope

A White City

""Do you think I know what I'm doing . . .?""

To Solitude

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