Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry

Book Overview

Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry is the first, the best, and the biggest collection of teen angst poetry ever to be published. Inspired by the popularity of her interactive website, editor Sara Bynoe has compiled the definitive teen angst reader. Divided into 12 categories, including I am Alone and No One Understands My Pain and Obvious Metaphors, this book is for anyone who has ever written truly terrible, meditative, or self-indulgent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312334745
• ISBN13: 9780312334741
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Loved This Book...

I loved this book. The many angst ridden poems ranged from funny to just plain bad, but all of them were very entertaining for me. I would recommend this book to anyone who has written angst ridden poetry in their teenaged years, and looked back upon it and laughed, and I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys peaking into the mind of an angst ridden teenager with a mocking spirit. I, however, would not recommend it to anyone who takes their teenaged poetry seriously, or who are looking for good poetry, because these are real poems by real teenagers who thought they were writing good poetry (when, in fact, they were not).

Terribly Funny

The first and definitive work of its kind, this anthology contains poems written in the heat of intense adolescent emotional distress and introduced by the now angst-free adults who wrote the poems. Although these authors lack the literary pretentiousness enjoyed by true poetasters, their work is equally terrible. Arrangement is by such adolescent-appropriate topics as Breakups--I Will Never Love Again Poems and I Am Alone--and No One Understand My Pain Poems, etc. One of the best parts of this truly comical collection is editor Sara Bynoe's eight step plan for teens interested in writing angst poetry. Bynoe's anthology was inspired by content from her website.

Sara "Genius" Bynoe

Who'd of thought that the person who would exploit the teen writing poems about being misunderstood by adults, would be the adult that teen became? Sara Bynoe! That's who! Pure angst magic, wit, and swearing, brought together for you in this fabulous book.