EBOOK

You Don't Have to Be Everything

Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves

Various Authors
3.5
(2)
Pages
176
Year
2021
Language
English

About

Created and compiled just for young women, “You Don't Have to Be Everything” is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest, unafraid, and skilled at addressing the complex feelings of coming-of-age, from loneliness to joy, longing to solace, attitude to humor. These unintimidating poems offer girls a message of self-acceptance and strength, giving them permission to let go of shame and perfectionism.

The cast of 68 poets is extraordinary: Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, who read at Joe Biden's inauguration, bestselling authors like Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Acevedo, Sharon Olds, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Mary Oliver, Instagram-famous poets including Kate Baer, Melody Lee, and Andrea Gibson, poets who are LGBTQ, poets of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, poets who sing of human experience in ways that are free from conventional ideas of femininity. Illustrated in full color with work by three diverse artists, this book is an inspired gift for daughters and granddaughters-and anyone on the path to becoming themselves.

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