Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation

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Summary: I love this book --
Review: --and am giving it to every other boomer girl I know. I found so many poems to like and to read over and over again -- also many new poets, which is great. It's a wonderful collection. Oh yes -- I also had a dress exactly like the one on the cover --

Rating:
Summary: I love this book --
Review: --and am giving it to every other boomer girl I know. I found so many poems to like and to read over and over again -- also many new poets, which is great. It's a wonderful collection. Oh yes -- I also had a dress exactly like the one on the cover --

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Summary: A wonderful collection of evocative poems
Review: This book has it all! Poems about growing up, dating, getting older, becoming "adult." Great poets such as Kim Addonizio, Julia Kasdorf, Denise Duhamel, Cathy Song, Dorianne Laux, on and on. As a contributor myself, I'm proud to be a Boomer Girl--give or take a few years. Be sure to check out the fantastic last poem by Diane Seuss-Brakeman.

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Summary: Wonderfully rich evocation of a time of transition
Review: This collection shows both how these years brought such profound changes for young women, for society in general...and yet how each woman's coming-of-age is unique and archetypical at the same time. Future collections could be made stronger by more regional diversity, as well as more structural diversity in the poems themselves (thematic development, poetic form). Still, it was wonderful to be transported back to sticky, stifling, no A/C summers when Van Morrison sang for me, too. Prepare to read it cover-to-cover.

Rating:
Summary: Wonderfully rich evocation of a time of transition
Review: This collection shows both how these years brought such profound changes for young women, for society in general...and yet how each woman's coming-of-age is unique and archetypical at the same time. Future collections could be made stronger by more regional diversity, as well as more structural diversity in the poems themselves (thematic development, poetic form). Still, it was wonderful to be transported back to sticky, stifling, no A/C summers when Van Morrison sang for me, too. Prepare to read it cover-to-cover.

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Summary: A terrific anthology
Review: This is a wonderful collection of moving, accessible, sometimes funny poems. Readers of both genders will find many gems here. Betsy Sholl's "Sex Ed," among many others, is worth the price of the whole book.

Rating:
Summary: A terrific anthology
Review: This is a wonderful collection of moving, accessible, sometimes funny poems. Readers of both genders will find many gems here. Betsy Sholl's "Sex Ed," among many others, is worth the price of the whole book.