Bibliograph

You Don't Have to Be Everything, Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves. /

Type

Label

You Don't Have to Be Everything, Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves. /

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

You Don't Have to Be Everything

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1243536506

Sub title

Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves. /

Summary

A contemporary poetry anthology that offers girls and young women wisdom and compassion for a vital, formative time in their lives

Table Of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Seeking -- 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 -- 2 Loneliness -- 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 -- 3 Attitude -- How to Triumph Like a GirlBlack Daughter's Pointillism -- I've Been Known -- Homage to My Hips -- She Plays Hockey On a Boys' Team -- In Critique of Modesty -- "What Do Women Want?" -- Confession -- Phenomenal Woman -- 4 Rage -- 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 -- 5 Longing -- 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 EliseBut They Say I Will Not Make It -- I Go Back to May 1937 -- 6 Shame -- 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 -- 7 Sadness -- 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 -- 8 Belonging -- Wild Geese -- The Rider -- Survival Guide -- Dancing With My Mother at a Cousin's Bat MitzvahFor My Daughter on a Bad Day -- Love Arrived May Find Us Someplace Else -- Flowers #3 -- For Keeps -- The Poets -- The Illustrators -- Permissions/Credit Lines -- Acknowledgments

Target audience

adolescent

Classification