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Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.
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I've read the whole series now...Poetry Speaks (for grownups)...Poetry Speaks (for kids)...and, now, this one, Poetry Speaks (for teens). Some of my favorites are here, including Langston Hughes' “Dreams” and “I Loved My Friend” and Maya Angelou's “Still I Rise”; I honestly cannot imagine a collection for teens without these poems. But lots of new surprises here and that is always welcome.
I'll be passing this book on to a librarian friend at the junior high who will add this book to her collection and share it with teens at her school.