Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation

by Lynn Melnick, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Carolyn Forché

Book Overview

One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view. Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now --full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670014796
• ISBN13: 9780670014798
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher