More Than Friends
Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf
In Poetry
Ages: 11–14
Grades: 6–9
Pages: 64
List Price: 16.95
Cover: Hardcover
Published: 10/1/2008
ISBN: 1-59078-587-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-59078-587-4
(saraholbrook.com, allanwolf.com)
MORE THAN FRIENDS: POEMS OF HIM AND HER (Boyds Mills/Front Street). This book, sure to spark lively discussion among the young men and women who read it, springs from a two-year e-mail correspondence between poets Allan Wolf and Sara Holbrook. As Allan and Sara's poems flew madly through the electronic ether, a fictional teenaged couple began to emerge. Many of the poems in this collection use traditional poetic forms (i.e. sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, and tankas) to explore teen subject matter that is anything but traditional. The result is a book that traverses, in poetic form, the gap between the genders--a gap that is sometimes vast, sometimes nonexistent.
(Sara Holborok with students)
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