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Tables of Contents for Poems by Adolescents and Adults
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Permissions
xv
Acknowledgments
xix
Preface
xxiii
Introduction
1
24
I At Home: The Person, the Family
Masks and the Search for Identity
25
16
Behind Grandma's House
29
1
A Piece of Furniture
30
1
Pretty Parcel
31
1
You're Who?
32
1
I Used to Try Not to Look Down
33
1
Play Pretend
34
1
The Adolescent Essence
35
1
Shadowed Thoughts
35
1
Unfortunately
36
1
Chock-Full of You
37
1
An Answer to a Liberal's Question: What Can I Do about Prejudice?
38
1
Poem for Flora
39
2
Gender
41
14
A Farewell, Age Ten
45
1
Around the High School
46
1
Heart Attack
47
1
Moon and Stars
47
1
Olga
48
1
Electra
49
1
Instruction
50
1
how the cookie crumbles (jane's sweet revenge)
50
2
My Father Mows the Lawn
52
1
Riding the Moon
53
1
Jenny Says
54
1
Body, Mind, and Spirit
55
17
The Dancer
59
1
Twenty-Five Minutes on the Stairmaster
60
2
Pumping Iron
62
1
Match Point
62
1
Forgotten Rainbow
63
1
The Runner
64
1
Twenty-Five Knots
64
1
An Endless Plane of Squares
65
1
Bowling
66
1
A Little More
66
1
Ski
67
1
The Assist
68
1
Start to Finish
68
1
Progression
69
1
Coach
70
2
Generations
72
23
Making a Briquette Chimney
76
1
It's Only a Tattoo
77
1
Take Your Elbows Off the Table
78
1
Grandma and Me
79
1
My Mother
80
1
Grandma's Ranch
81
1
flight
82
1
My Wicked Wicked Ways
83
1
Giggle from the Sea
84
2
Last Photograph
86
1
J. T.
87
1
June 2, 1989
88
1
Little Girl Grown Up
89
1
Sitting on the Yellow Pages
90
1
Everlasting Baggage
91
1
Blueberry Pie
92
3
II Close to Home: Classmates, Friends, and Others
School Life
95
20
Why I Write Poetry
100
1
Your Head Is Spinning Round and Round
101
1
What's in a Locker?
102
1
Shoes
103
2
My Class-Fifth Grade
105
1
Children's Jail
106
1
A Report
106
1
A Self-Divided Class
107
1
Outing
108
1
Lunchtime at Prien Lake Elementary School
109
1
The Alien
110
1
Another Average Girl
111
1
What I Learned in School Today
111
1
The Bully
112
1
Notes for a Writing Instructor
112
2
On Wiesel's Night
114
1
Individual/Group/Crowd
115
13
Some Things Suburban
119
2
Corrupted Soul
121
1
Heartland
122
1
how things work
123
1
the unplayed taps
124
1
A Slave's Journal Entry
124
1
The Awakening
125
1
Boarding House
125
1
Traffic
126
1
Road Shoulder Mail Boxes
127
1
Peers
128
19
Linens
133
1
How Could She Forgive Me?
134
1
Together
135
1
Summer Day Memories
136
1
Stir the Fire
136
2
Little Miss Perfect
138
1
How Different People Talk in Different Ways
138
1
Responsibility
139
1
I Would 'Never Lie to You
140
1
The Day Willie Missed the Bus
141
1
Who Would've Thought
142
2
Final Note
144
1
Beating Up Billy Murphy in Fifth Grade
145
1
The Bully
146
1
Love
147
24
Blinded by the Sun
153
1
Coin Laundry
154
1
Drawn
155
1
The Bark of Love
156
2
Damsels and Dragons
158
1
Our Separate Ways
159
1
One-Sided Love
160
1
Lovesong
161
1
Love, Such a Wonderful Thing
162
1
A Game
162
1
I Know
163
1
That Kiss
164
1
First Kiss
165
1
Kiss
166
1
Women
166
1
Housecleaning
167
1
Separation
167
1
A Poem of Friendship
168
3
III A Larger World: Personal and Public Issues and Choices
Choices, Choices, Choices
171
15
They Call Themselves Gang-Bangers
176
1
The Bowman's Hand
176
2
Sweep Me Clean
178
1
Too Early: Learn to Wait
179
1
Why?
180
1
Prom Night
181
1
Recipe
182
1
Deadly Party
183
1
Have Fun!
183
1
The Canadian War
184
1
Girl in the Doorway
185
1
Social Issues
186
19
Breaking the Doll
192
1
My Parents Are Ignorance and Hatred
193
1
Keeping a Gun in the House
194
1
Caylor Street
195
1
The Survivor
196
1
Scarecrow
197
1
Notice
198
1
Kryptonite and Fire
199
1
Graveyard beside Whitesville Road
200
2
The Hill
202
1
Sonnet for the Heart
202
1
Unchained
203
1
Pictures of the World October 24, 1983 6:30 A.M.
204
1
The Future: Goals and Dreams
205
38
Night
210
1
barefoot
211
1
Scenic Route
212
1
In My Head Are Dreams
213
1
Welcome
214
1
Metaphor Poem
215
1
Library of Life
215
1
The Unexpected
216
1
a morning like this
216
2
Science Project
218
1
Learning to Ride
219
1
She Sat by the Water
220
1
Keeping His Head
221
1
Sunset
222
1
Appendixes
A. Book Resources for Using and Teaching Poetry
223
5
B. Annotated List of Recent English Journal and Voices from the Middle Articles on Using and Teaching Poetry
228
5
C. Recommended Web Sites on Poetry in the Classroom
233
2
D. List of Adolescent Poets' Hometowns, Schools, and Teachers
235
8
Editors
243