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You don't have to be everything : poems for girls becoming themselves / edited by Diana Whitney ; illustrations by Cristina González, Kate Mockford, Stephanie Singleton.

Summary:

"A contemporary poetry anthology that offers girls and young women wisdom and compassion for a vital, formative time in their lives."-- Publisher's description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781523510993
  • ISBN: 1523510994
  • Physical Description: 165 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Workman Publishing Co., Inc., [2021].

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Seeking. Final exam Stephanie / Stephanie Burt -- Origin/Adoption / Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello -- Flying inside your own body / Margaret Atwood -- Questions for Google / Elizabeth Spires -- Year I tell my parents I am a homosexual / Sahar Romani -- Bike ride with older boys / Laura Kasischke -- Away from home / Paige Buffington -- On crescents & transition & waning / Kayleb Rae Candrilli -- Lost & found / Amy Dryansky -- Loneliness. Playing hide and seek / Wendy Guerra -- Questions asked to me when I was ten / S. Erin Batiste -- Solitude / Franny Choi -- Night before first day of school / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Growing up / Melody Lee -- With pretty legs / Talin Tahajian -- Insomnia / Jane Kenyon -- self-portraiture / Fariha Róisín -- How to triumph like a girl / Ada Limón -- Black daughter's pointillism / Amanda Gorman -- I've been known / Denise Duhamel -- homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- she plays hockey on a boy's team / Clara Bush Vadala -- in critique of modesty / Angélica María Aguilera -- "What do women want?" / Kim Addonizio -- Confession / Leila Chatti -- Phenomenal woman / Maya Angelou -- Harder / Melissa Stein -- On Anger / Rage Hezekiah -- Period poem / Dominique Christina -- And if by invisibility / Tamiko Beyer -- Ones who got away with it / Bianca Stone -- Rehearsal / Sara Peters -- Self-portrait as wounded doe of Artemis / Aria Aber -- Self-portrait as mango / Tarfia Faizullah -- Fast gas / Dorianne Laux -- Practicing / Marie Howe -- Meditations in an emergency / Cameron Awkward-Rich -- Oh God / Michelle Tea -- On the discomfort of being in the same room as the boy you like / Sarah Kay -- coming of age / Evie Shockley -- Wanting it / Diana Whitney -- Song to Elise / Holly Burdorff -- But they say I will not make it / Rachel Wiley -- I go back to May 1937 / Sharon Olds -- Ode to gossips / Safia Elhillo -- Wolf and woman / Nikita Gill -- Sonnet for a dollar / Natalie Scenters-Zapico -- Why I hate raisins / Natalie Diaz -- When the fat girl gets skinny / Blythe Baird -- Mockers / Mary Meriam -- "Is there something I should know?" / Brenda Shaughnessy -- Landscape with clinic and oracle / Lynn Melnick -- What to say to a friend who wants to give up / J P Howard -- Rearview mirror : February / Alison Prine -- Skinning ghosts alive / Alison C. Rollins -- Event horizon / Leslie Maria Aguilar -- What you mourn / Sheila Black -- No filter / Andrea Gibson -- Night bloom / Crystal Williams -- I will practice self-talk / M. J. Fievre -- Wild geese / Mary Oliver -- Rider / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Survival guide / Joy Ladin -- dancing with my mother at a cousin's bat mitzvah / Maya Stein -- For my daughter on a bad day / Kate Baer -- Love arrived may find us someplace else / July Westhale -- Flowers #3 / Joshua Jennifer Espinoza -- For keeps / Joy Harjo.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 12-18 Workman Publishing Co.
Grades 7-9 Workman Publishing Co.
Subject:
Teenage girls > Poetry.
Young women > Poetry.
Self-realization > Poetry.
Genre:
Young adult poetry.
Poetry.

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  • 11 of 11 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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