| Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire Contributor(s): Rachel, T. Cole (Editor), Costello, Rita D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1932360174 ISBN-13: 9781932360172 Publisher: Soft Skull OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: This new poetry anthology navigates the rocky waters of teenage sexuality and confusion with insight, clarity, and understanding. The poems were written by adults who keenly remember the turmoil and excitement of their own adolescent sexual explorations but now have the perspective and sense of self that come with growing up. They employ concrete details - reaching across car seats, the electric touch of fingertips - as well as more ephemeral concepts, such as facing desire as powerful as a thunderstorm.Offering comfort, illumination, and acceptance, the book reflects the nuances and complications of teenage sexuality, and explores the confused joy of it, the bright desire, the shame and isolation, the shock of sexual discovery, and the thrill - or horror - of waking up to a new identity. The poems give teens new insight and new language for dealing with gender issues as a whole. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 811.008 |
| LCCN: 2004003002 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.46" W x 8.44" (0.31 lbs) 111 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bend Don't Shatter is an anthology of poetry for young adults that realistically and beautifully deals with what it means to come of age as gay, lesbian, transgender, or, as is perhaps more often the case in adolescence, totally confused. The anthology approaches the seemingly unnavigable territory of teenage sexuality and confusion with poems written by adults who keenly remember the turmoil, pain and excitement of adolescence and sexual coming of age. The poems are written with the insight and clarity of perspective and understanding that comes with years. The book shows that teenage sexuality is more nuanced and complicated than it is often given credit for. It is valuable in that it not only provides a service of sorts--giving young adults a thing with which they can identify, a thing that might comfort, console, explain, entertain, and illuminate--but also just as importantly, it brings the pleasures of poetry to an audience for whom poetry itself might seem as unfathomable as adulthood itself. |
