Poems and writing by teenage boys
Edited by Betsy Franco
This book is a collection of writings (poetry and prose) in the voice of the adolescent male. The topics of the writings include a wide range of topics: school, dads, children, drugs, love, and more. The writings in this collection are true and honest and they, at times, typify the voice of the young adolescent male. At other times they are the voice of a much wiser, more mature and experienced person, as in the poem “Carabao Dreams” by Timoth Arevalo, “sadness is not the absence of happiness/but your incapacity to witness its presence”. Another example of adolescent wisdom from “I Refuse” by Steven Hill, “When I see the word ‘father’, the first person that comes to mind is myself…I refuse to be a deadbeat dad because no excuse is a good enough excuse to abandon your own creation.” I found most of the writings insightful and valuable.
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