Book
You don't have to be everything : poems for girls becoming themselves
Publication Information
New York : Workman Publishing, [2021]
Physical Description
165 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary
"A contemporary poetry anthology that offers girls and young women wisdom and compassion for a vital, formative time in their lives."--
Poetry awakens your inner world and makes all your feelings come alive. The poems in this collection-- chosen with girls in mind-- sing of diversity, self-discovery, and self-acceptance. Grouped by emotional experience, the poems give the reader permission to let go of shame and perfectionism. By accepting your own contradictions, you can embrace the fullness of who you are-- and of who you are becoming. -- adapted from flaps.
Contents
- Introduction
- Seeking
- Loneliness
- Attitude
- Rage
- Longing
- Shame
- Sadness
- Belonging.
- Final exam Stephanie / Origin/adoption / Flying inside your own body / Questions for Google / The year I tell my parents I am a homosexual / Bike ride with older boys / Away from home / On crescents & transition & waning / Lost & found / Playing hide and seek / Questions asked to me when I was ten / Solitude / Night before first day of school / Growing up / With pretty legs / Insomnia / self-portraiture / How to triumph like a girl / Black daughter's pointillism / I've been known / homage to my hips / she plays hockey on a boy's team / in critique of modesty / "What do women want?" / Confession / Phenomenal woman / Harder / On Anger / The period poem / And if by invisibility / Ones who got away with it / Rehearsal / Self-portrait as wounded doe of Artemis / Self-portrait as mango / Fast gas / Practicing / Meditations in an emergency / Oh God / On the discomfort of being in the same room as the boy you like / coming of age / Wanting it / Song to Elise / But they say I will not make it / I go back to May 1937 / Ode to gossips / Wolf and woman / Sonnet for a dollar / Why I hate raisins / When the fat girl gets skinny / The mockers / "Is there something I should know?" / Landscape with clinic and oracle / What to say to a friend who wants to give up / Rearview mirror : February / Skinning ghosts alive / Event horizon / What you mourn / No filter / Night bloom / I will practice self-talk / Wild geese / The rider / Survival guide / dancing with my mother at a cousin's bat mitzvah / For my daughter on a bad day / Love arrived may find us someplace else / Flowers #3 / For keeps / The poets
- The illustrators.